The prey as patch model: optimal handling of resources with diminishing returns

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Patch leaving in humans: can a generalist adapt its rules to dispersal of items across patches? (2008, background): “…of native peoples: when to leave one hunting or fishing ground, when to move herds to fresh pasture, when to cultivate a new patch of forest (Smith & Wishnie 2000), how far food is processed before carrying it home (Metcalfe & Barlow 1992) and how much a carcass is butchered (Burger et al. 2005).”
Is it Intensification Yet? Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Economies (2015, background): “Burger et al. (2005) take this logic one step further, developing a ‘‘prey as patch model’’ derived from Charnov’s (1976) marginal value theorem.”
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations (2012, background): “There are, however, two other OFT models – patch choice and central place models, that appear to offer ways of rationalizing the mismatch between diet breadth model predictions and empirical reality (Burger et al., 2005; Smith, 1983; Winterhalder and Kennett, 2006).”
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges (2007, background): “Burger et al. (2005) suggest that the patch choice model as applied at singlecarcass levels can predict selective part processing.”