We developed a biologically plausible agent-based model to investigate two common mate choice rules that may be used by female gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor). Our results showed that females using the minimum-threshold strategy found higher quality males and traveled shorter distances on average, compared with females using best-of-n strategy. However, depending on the average quality of the male population, females using the minimum-threshold strategy found fewer mates.
@article{ferreiraetal18plosone,
title={Mate choice strategies in a spatially-explicit model environment},
author={Giordano B. S. Ferreira AND Matthias Scheutz AND Sunny K. Boyd},
year={2018},
month={08},
journal={PLOS ONE},
publisher={Public Library of Science},
volume={13},
pages={1--25}
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/ferreiraetal18plosone.pdf}
doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0202680}
}