The policy which maximises long-term survival of an animal faced with the risks of starvation and predation

DOI10.2307/1427537MaRDI QIDQ3348764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. M. McNamara

Publication date 1990

Published in Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1427537

zbMATH Keywords

storage capacitynonnegative matricessurvival probabilitystarvationpredation riskenergy reservesbody fatfinite-state, finite-time-horizon Markov decision problemmetabolic expenditure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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