Optimal Behavior and Density-Dependent Predation

Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

1973 • 15,387 citations

Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems

2001 • 5,169 citations

Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem

1976 • 5,081 citations

Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach

1992 • 3,875 citations

Theory of Feeding Strategies

1971 • 3,488 citations

Optimal Foraging: A Selective Review of Theory and Tests

1977 • 3,200 citations

The Dynamics of Arthropod Predator-Prey Systems

1979 • 1,630 citations

The Natural Control of Animal Populations

1949 • 1,500 citations

On the Evidence Needed to Judge Ecological Stability or Persistence

1983 • 1,156 citations

Optimal Behavior: Can Foragers Balance Two Conflicting Demands?

1980 • 892 citations

Encounter Probabilities and Community Structure in Zooplankton: a Mathematical Model

1977 • 837 citations

Foraging Strategies and the Avoidance of Predation by an Aquatic Insect, Notonecta Hoffmanni

1982 • 452 citations

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

1979 • 399 citations

Functional Responses of Optimal Foragers

1982 • 325 citations

Simple Models of Optimal Feeding-Territory Size: A Reconciliation

1983 • 308 citations

Functional Response and Stability in Predator-Prey Systems

1975 • 306 citations

Animal Behavior as a Strategy Optimizer: Evolution of Resource Assessment Strategies and Optimal Emigration Thresholds

1976 • 298 citations

An Ecological Theory on Foraging Time and Energetics and Choice of Optimal Food-Searching Method

1977 • 283 citations

Analyzing Shapes of Foraging Areas: Some Ecological and Economic Theories

1976 • 222 citations

Growth, Metabolism, and Optimal Swimming Speed of a Pelagic Fish

1975 • 216 citations

Adaptive Searching Strategies in Insect Parasites

1977 • 180 citations

Optimal Foraging: Partial Consumption of Prey

1980 • 154 citations

The Dynamics of Optimally Foraging Predators and Parasitoids

1979 • 141 citations

Energy Maximizers and Time Minimizers: Theory and Reality

1982 • 127 citations

The Economics of Territory Size and Time Budget in the Golden-Winged Sunbird

1979 • 114 citations

An energy-based model of optimal feeding-territory size

1978 • 107 citations

Food Density and Territory Size: An Alternative Model and a Test on the Reef Fish Eupomacentrus leucostictus

1980 • 106 citations

Optimal Travel Speeds of Animals

1981 • 78 citations

On the Optimal Aboveground Activity of Bannertail Kangaroo Rats

1974 • 62 citations

Stability, Prey Density and Age/Dependent Interference in an Aquatic Insect Predator, Notonecta hoffmanni

1981 • 50 citations

More on Functional Response and Stability (Reply to Levin)

1977 • 5 citations