ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Constrained optimal foraging by marine bacterioplankton on particulate organic matter.
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Abstract
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 costs of foraging. Here, we show that, after accounting for the limited environmental information available to microorganisms, optimal foraging theory and, in particular, patch use theory also applies to the behavior of marine bacteria in particle seascapes. Combining modeling and experiments, we find that the marine bacterium
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