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Consider Three Food Patches That Have the Same Predation Risk

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Consider three food patches that have the same predation risk and energetic costs but differ in their missed opportunity costs: patch A has the highest missed opportunity cost, while patch C has the lowest missed opportunity cost. What prediction does Brown's (1988) patch-use model make about how a forager will exploit these patches?


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Standard Error

A statistical measure that describes the distribution of sample means around the population mean, indicating the accuracy of a sample mean as an estimate of the population mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that likely contains the true value of an unknown population parameter.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sample distribution of a statistic, often used in the context of mean.

Mean

The central or typical value in a distribution, calculated as the sum of all observations divided by the number of observations.

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