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   . 2008 May;73(3):403-25.
   doi: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.009. Epub 2008 Jan 8.

The ideal free distribution: a review and synthesis of the game-theoretic perspective

   [39]Vlastimil Krivan^ [40] 1 , [41]Ross Cressman, [42]Candace Schneider
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   . 2008 May;73(3):403-25.
   doi: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.009. Epub 2008 Jan 8.

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   [47]Vlastimil Krivan^ [48] 1 , [49]Ross Cressman, [50]Candace Schneider

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   The Ideal Free Distribution (IFD), introduced by Fretwell and Lucas in [Fretwell,
   D.S., Lucas, H.L., 1970. On territorial behavior and other factors influencing
   habitat distribution in birds. Acta Biotheoretica 19, 16-32] to predict how a
   single species will distribute itself among several patches, is often cited as an
   example of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). By defining the strategies
   and payoffs for habitat selection, this article puts the IFD concept in a more
   general game-theoretic setting of the "habitat selection game". Within this
   game-theoretic framework, the article focuses on recent progress in the following
   directions: (1) studying evolutionarily stable dispersal rates and corresponding
   dispersal dynamics; (2) extending the concept when population numbers are not
   fixed but undergo population dynamics; (3) generalizing the IFD to multiple
   species. For a single species, the article briefly reviews existing results. It
   also develops a new perspective for Parker's matching principle, showing that
   this can be viewed as the IFD of the habitat selection game that models consumer
   behavior in several resource patches and analyzing complications involved when
   the model includes resource dynamics as well. For two species, the article first
   demonstrates that the connection between IFD and ESS is now more delicate by
   pointing out pitfalls that arise when applying several existing game-theoretic
   approaches to these habitat selection games. However, by providing a new detailed
   analysis of dispersal dynamics for predator-prey or competitive interactions in
   two habitats, it also pinpoints one approach that shows much promise in this
   general setting, the so-called "two-species ESS". The consequences of this
   concept are shown to be related to recent studies of population dynamics combined
   with individual dispersal and are explored for more species or more patches.

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