Processes Starvation

Starvation mortality

Starvation mortality is applied as follows:

$$ N_{starv} = N \times (1 - e^{-M_{starv}}) $$

where $M_{starv}$ is the starvation mortality rate, which is computed as follows:

$$ M_{starv} = M_{max} \times \left(1 - \frac{S_R}{C_{S_R}}\right)\ if\ S_R \le C_{S_R} $$

Note

Starvation mortality rate applied at time step $t$ is based on the predation success computed at time-step $t-1$

Parameter	Description
mortality.starvation.rate.max.sp#	Maximum rate of starvation mortality $M_{max}$
predation.efficiency.critical.sp#	Critical predation success rate $C_{S_R}$