An optimal strategy for energy allocation in a multiple resource environment.

We consider a model for a population in discrete time with nonoverlapping generations that has fecundity proportional to the amounts of two essential resources obtained up to a saturating level. A population's strategy defines how individuals divide their total available energy between efforts to obtain the two resources. We assume that the total amount of each resource obtained is a positive, increasing, concave down function of the total energy exerted toward the resource.