Optimal foraging theory provides a framework to understand how organisms balance the benefits of harvesting resources within a patch with the sum of the metabolic, predation, and missed opportunity ...

This paper reviews a concept on the ecological significance of morphological plasticity in plants. Several experimental studies indicate that plants may place their organs of resource uptake to ...

If you are wondering how long you personally are willing to stand in line to buy that hot new holiday gift, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say the answer may be found in the biological rules ...

Based on papers presented at the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology / Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder ...

If you are wondering how long you personally are willing to stand in line to buy that hot new holiday gift, scientists say the answer may be found in the biological rules governing how animals ...