Publisher Summary This chapter reviews how the question of animal distributions has been
approached from the point of view of individual behavior. The basis for much of the work on …

Population dynamics and animal behaviour are two subjects that have developed almost
independently, despite widespread acceptance of the idea that they must be related. The …

Opinions differ on the empirical success of the Ideal Free Distribution. The Ideal Free model
predicts that the distribution of organisms between resource sites should match the …

Population responses of synanthropic species to urbanization may be explained by the
resource‐matching rule, which postulates that individuals should distribute themselves …

Ideal free distribution (IFD) theory offers an important baseline for predicting the distribution
of foragers across resource patches. Yet it is well known that IFD theory relies on several …

Abstract Fretwell's (1972, Populations in a Seasonal Environment, Princeton University
Press) ideal tree model predicts the ideal distribution when individuals in a habitat are free …

One of the major aims of behavioural ecology is to explain the distribution of animals around
their environment. Several authors (Brown 1969; Orians 1969; Fretwell & Lucas 1970; …

Both resources and natural enemies can influence the distribution of a herbivore. The ideal
free distribution predicts that herbivores distribute themselves to optimise utilisation of …

Ideal Free Distributions (IFD) have successfully been used to describe the spatial
distributions of animals in heterogeneous or patchy environments over relatively small …

This article studies the effect of travel costs on population distribution in a patchy
environment. The Ideal Free Distribution with travel costs is defined in the article as the …