An agent-based model of elephant crop consumption walks using combinatorial optimization

Haosen He, Erin Buchholtz, Frederick Chen, Susanne Vogel and Yu, Chu A.(Alex)

Ecological Modelling, 2022, vol. 464, issue C

Abstract: Wildlife crop consumption is a worldwide problem. This paper builds on the theoretical framework of profit and utility maximization from economics as established in the theory of optimal foraging, bringing this perspective to the issue of wildlife crop consumption by testing whether elephants forage for crops in an optimal way.

Keywords: Crop consumption; Crop foraging; Crop raiding; Individual-based models; Agent-based models; Optimal foraging; Combinatorial optimization; Lattice walk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109852

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