Clutch size as an optimal foraging problem for insects

Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem

1976 • 5,081 citations

Life-History Tactics: A Review of the Ideas

1976 • 3,515 citations

Optimal Foraging: A Selective Review of Theory and Tests

1977 • 3,200 citations

The Optimal Balance between Size and Number of Offspring

1974 • 2,895 citations

The Significance of Clutch-size

1947 • 2,029 citations

Evolutionary Biology of Parasites

1980 • 1,495 citations

Parts I and II

1982 • 912 citations

On optimal oviposition behavior in phytophagous insects

1978 • 726 citations

ON CLUTCH‐SIZE AND FITNESS

1974 • 536 citations

Prey Distribution as a Factor Determining the Choice of Optimal Foraging Strategy

1981 • 534 citations

Semiochemicals their Role in Pest Control

1982 • 423 citations

Brood reduction in birds: Selection for fratricide, infanticide and suicide?

1978 • 423 citations

Optimal foraging in patches: A case for stochasticity

1977 • 392 citations

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

1979 • 375 citations

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

1979 • 362 citations

Egg Deposition Patterns in Butterflies: Why Do Some Species Cluster Their Eggs Rather Than Deposit Them Singly?

1980 • 289 citations

Evolution of Host Selection and Clutch Size in Parasitoid Wasps

1984 • 253 citations

The Reproductive Strategy of a Parasitic Wasp: I. Optimal Progeny and Sex Allocation in Trichogramma evanescens

1984 • 238 citations

Bayesian birds: A simple example of Oaten's stochastic model of optimal foraging

1980 • 234 citations

Complementary Approaches to the Understanding of Parasitoid Oviposition Decisions

1985 • 227 citations

The Evolution of Oviposition Tactics in the Bean Weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus (F.)

1975 • 225 citations

Models of clutch size in insect oviposition

1984 • 220 citations

Host discrimination by parasitoids

1981 • 206 citations

Models of parent-offspring conflict. III. Intra-brood conflict

1979 • 200 citations

Adaptive Searching Strategies in Insect Parasites

1977 • 180 citations

Optimal Foraging by Parasitoid Wasps

1978 • 154 citations

Optimal Foraging: Partial Consumption of Prey

1980 • 154 citations

Superparasitism and Host Discrimination By Asobara Tabida Nees )Braconidae: Alysiinae), a Larval Parasitoid of Drosophilidae

1981 • 122 citations

A Plant-Aphid-Parasite Relationship

1973 • 103 citations

Host Selection and Number of Eggs per Oviposition in the Egg-Parasite Trichogramma embryophagum Htg.

1962 • 98 citations

Reproductive strategies and population ecology of insect parasitoids

1985 • 96 citations

The Significance of Oviposition Rates in the Egg Parasite, Trichogramma Embryophagum Htg

1966 • 89 citations

The Effects of Larval Density on Several Strains of the House Fly

1963 • 88 citations

Host selection and egg allocation behaviour by Aphytis melinus and A.lingnanensis: comparison of two facultatively gregarious parasitoids

1982 • 78 citations

BIOLOGY OF TRICHOGRAMMA BREVICAPILLUM

1982 • 74 citations

Cannibalism and Kin Selection in Labidomera clivicollis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

1973 • 72 citations

Patterns in the Host-Feeding Habit of Adult Parasitic Hymenoptera1

1964 • 62 citations

Selective Pressures on Clutch Size in the Gall Maker Asteromyia Carbonifera

1983 • 61 citations

Host Discrimination in A Gregarious Parasitoid Nasonia Vitripennis (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

1970 • 53 citations

The effect of host species on diapause induction in Nasonia vitripennis

1970 • 46 citations

Distribution of Progeny by Cryptus inornatus Pratt (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

1949 • 41 citations

The Influence of Dispersal Pattern On the Evolution of Fecundity

1981 • 31 citations

Length of Life of the Sexes in Nasonia Vitripennis (Walker) (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) Under Conditions of Starvation

1963 • 30 citations

Life History and Behavior of Laelius pedatus1, a Gregarious Bethylid Ectoparasitoid of Anthrenus verbasci23

1980 • 29 citations

LOW-DENSITY LARVAL CROWDING IN THE LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH, EPIPHYAS POSTVITTANA AND ITS ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE

1982 • 20 citations

Egg Parasitoids (Hymenoptera; Trichogrammatidae) of Diopsis Macrophthalma (Diptera; Diopsidae) in Malawi

1980 • 19 citations

Brood Size of the Parasitic Wasp Hyssopus thymus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae): Functional Correlation with the Mass of a Cryptic Host1

1972 • 19 citations

Why do Luehdorfia butterflies lay eggs in clusters?

1982 • 15 citations

Distribution of Progeny byCryptus inornatusPratt (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

1950 • 11 citations