The effects of animal personality on the ideal free distribution.

ABSTRACT: The ideal free distribution (IFD) has been used to predict the distribution of foraging animals in a wide variety of systems. However, its predictions do not always match observed distributions of foraging animals. Instead, we often observe that there are more consumers than predicted in low-quality patches and fewer consumers than predicted in high-quality patches (i.e. undermatching). We examine the possibility that animal personality is one explanation for this undermatching. We first conducted a literature search to determine how commonly studies document the personality distribution of populations. Second, we created a simple individual-based model to conceptually demonstrate why knowing the distribution of personalities is important for studies of populations of foragers in context o

SUBMITTER: DiNuzzo ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7542775 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature