The Application of Optimal Foraging Theory to Feeding Behaviour in Fish

Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem

1976 • 5,081 citations

A treatise on limnology.

1957 • 3,994 citations

Predation, Body Size, and Composition of Plankton

1965 • 3,237 citations

Optimal Foraging: A Selective Review of Theory and Tests

1977 • 3,200 citations

Experimental Ecology of the Feeding of Fishes

1962 • 1,770 citations

An introduction to behavioural ecology

1981 • 1,761 citations

An Experimental Test of the Effects of Predation Risk on Habitat Use in Fish

1983 • 1,644 citations

Predation and Population Stability

1975 • 1,551 citations

The Role of Time and Energy in Food Preference

1966 • 1,389 citations

Habitat Structural Complexity and the Interaction Between Bluegills and Their Prey

1982 • 1,371 citations

Optimal Foraging and the Size Selection of Prey by the Bluegill Sunfish (Lepomis Macrochirus)

1974 • 1,178 citations

A Treatise on Limnology. Vol. II. Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton

1967 • 1,023 citations

Predation and Freshwater Communities

1982 • 989 citations

Foraging Efficiency and Body Size: A Study of Optimal Diet and Habitat Use by Bluegills

1981 • 902 citations

Darwin's Finches

1947 • 754 citations

Influence of a predator on the optimal foraging behaviour of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)

1978 • 736 citations

Aggregation of Predators and Insect Parasites and its Effect on Stability

1974 • 664 citations

Physiological Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach to Resource Use

1983 • 655 citations

Diet optimization in a generalist herbivore: The moose

1978 • 618 citations

Hunting by expectation or optimal foraging? A study of patch use by chickadees

1974 • 545 citations

Optimal prey selection in the great tit (Parus major)

1977 • 544 citations

Energy Maximization in the Diet of the Shore Crab, Carcinus maenas

1978 • 532 citations

The sampling characteristics of electivity indices

1982 • 519 citations

Fish in larger shoals find food faster

1982 • 511 citations

Adaptive Flexibility in the Foraging Behavior of Fishes

1983 • 496 citations

Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology.

1977 • 483 citations

Demonstration of the effect of the fish stock on the species composition of zooplankton and the intensity of metabolism of the whole plankton association

1961 • 431 citations

Experimental Tests of Optimal Habitat Use in Fish: The Role of Relative Habitat Profitability

1983 • 428 citations

Effects of Light and Turbidity on the Reactive Distance of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)

1976 • 425 citations

LIGHT AS AN ECOLOGICAL FACTOR

1967 • 413 citations

Species Packing and Niche Complementarity in Three Sunfishes

1977 • 410 citations

The Fish Size, Prey Size, Handling Time Relation in Several Sunfishes and Some Implications

1974 • 405 citations

Optimal Diets under the Energy Maximization Premise: The Effects of Recognition Time and Learning

1979 • 399 citations

Optimal foraging in great tits (Parus major)

1977 • 391 citations

Foraging for Patchily-Distributed Hosts by the Parasitoid, Nemeritis canescens

1979 • 375 citations

Introduction to lake biology and the limnoplankton

1967 • 370 citations

Foraging for patchily-distributed hosts by the parasitoid, Nemeritis canescens

1979 • 362 citations

The Predator-Prey Interaction of Planktivorous Fish and Zooplankton

1979 • 342 citations

Capture Probability: The Role of Zooplankter Escape in the Selective Feeding of Planktivorous Fish

1978 • 318 citations

Fish Predation on Bosmina longirostris: Body-Size Selection Versus Visibility Selection

1975 • 301 citations

An introduction to behavioural ecology

1982 • 285 citations

The Role of Foraging Profitability and Experience in Habitat Use by the Bluegill Sunfish

1981 • 274 citations

Predation By the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus Aculeatus L.): the Influence of Hunger and Experience

1968 • 260 citations

The Nature of Prey Selection by Planktivorous Fish

1977 • 251 citations

Diel pattern of pelagic distribution and feeding in planktivorous fish

1979 • 204 citations

Optimal Foraging: Field Tests of Diet Choice and Habitat Switching

1981 • 203 citations

Selective Predation of Ephippal Daphnia and the Resistance of Ephippal Eggs to Digestion

1975 • 191 citations

Daily Feeding Periodicities, Food Uptake Rates, and Dietary Changes with Hour of Day in Some Lake Fishes

1968 • 190 citations

Learning to forage—Optimally?

1980 • 177 citations

The Responses of Redshank (Tringa totanus (L.)) to Spatial Variations in the Density of their Prey

1970 • 176 citations

Optimal Foraging by Parasitoid Wasps

1978 • 154 citations

Limnetic feeding behavior of juvenile sockeye salmon in Lake Washington and predator avoidance 1

1978 • 146 citations

Diel Foraging Behavior and Prey Selection in the Golden Shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas)

1979 • 145 citations

Prey ‘handling time’ and its importance in food selection by the 15-spined stickleback, Spinachia spinachia (L.)

1976 • 144 citations

Selective Predation by Drift-Feeding Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)

1979 • 143 citations

Predation by Rainbow Trout (Salmo gairdneri): the Effect of Experience

1971 • 133 citations

A Question of Taste: Crypsis and Warning Coloration in Freshwater Zooplankton Communities

1982 • 132 citations

Ovenbird (Aves: Parulidae) hunting behavior in a patchy environment: an experimental study

1976 • 127 citations

Light as an Ecological Factor.

1967 • 121 citations

Shoal size, patch profitability and information exchange in foraging goldfish

1983 • 120 citations

Differential Location of Chaoborus Larvae and Daphnia by Fish: The Importance of Motion and Visible Size

1982 • 117 citations

Differential Prey Vulnerability and Predator Selectivity: Effects of Evasive Prey on Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and Pumpkinseed (L. gibhosus) Predation

1980 • 105 citations

Selective predation and habitat shift in a copepod species — support for the predation hypothesis

1983 • 97 citations

The cost of copepod reproduction: increased susceptibility to fish predation

1983 • 96 citations

Diel Vertical Movements and Feeding of Underyearling Sockeye Salmon and the Limnetic Zooplankton in Babine Lake, British Columbia

1970 • 86 citations

The behavioural basis of prey selection by underyearling bream (Abramis brama (L.)) and roach (Rutilus rutilus (L.))

1983 • 85 citations

The Behaviour of Minnows in Relation to Light Intensity

1956 • 82 citations

Diel Feeding Chronology, Rate of Gastric Evacuation, Daily Ration, and Prey Selectivity in Lake Washington Juvenile Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

1978 • 77 citations

Computer Analysis of Predation Energetics in the Largemouth Bass

1971 • 77 citations

Planktivorous Feeding Ecology of Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus)

1982 • 76 citations

Size Selection of Daphnia pulicaria by Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) Fry in West Blue Lake, Manitoba

1972 • 66 citations

The influence of light level on the functional response of a zooplanktonivorous fish

1982 • 65 citations

Behavior of juvenile pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Walbaum) toward novel prey: influence of ontogeny and experience

1978 • 64 citations

Species Replacement in a Reservoir Fish Community: Silverside Feeding Mechanics and Competition

1982 • 61 citations

Selective feeding by baltic herring

1980 • 59 citations

Visual pigments and underwater vision

1966 • 55 citations

Variable Kinematics of Sacramento Perch (Archoplites interruptus) Capturing Evasive and Nonevasive Prey

1982 • 52 citations

The Daily Activity Patterns of Some Freshwater Fishes

1949 • 49 citations

Vulnerability of Arctic Zooplankton Species to Predation by Small Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush)

1978 • 44 citations

The Forage Ratio and its use in Determining the Food Grade of Streams

1940 • 41 citations

Food Habits and Feeding Chronology of Young White Crappie, Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque, in Conowingo Reservoir

1971 • 32 citations

Feeding Chronology and Diet Composition of Two Darters (Percidae) in the Iroquois River System, Illinois

1980 • 31 citations

Foraging in a patchy environment by a predatory net-spinning caddis larva: A test of optimal foraging theory

1980 • 30 citations

The Zander in Perspective

1979 • 23 citations

On the Food Relations of Fresh-Water Fishes; a summary and discussion

2019 • 21 citations

The Educability of the Perch

1901 • 21 citations

Significance of morphology and physiology ofDaphnia for its survival in predator-prey experiments

1965 • 18 citations

A Method of Direct Estimation of Total Food Consumption with Application to Young Yellow Perch

1972 • 16 citations

Diel Activity and Feeding of Schooled Largemouth Bass Fry

1976 • 14 citations

An experimental study of foraging site selection in young-of-the-year yellow perch,Perca flavescens

1983 • 6 citations

An experimental study of foraging site selection in young-of-the-year yellow perch, Perca flavescens

1983 • 5 citations