A field technique for estimating the influence of surface complexity on movement tortuosity in the tropical limpet cellana grata gould

Ophelia

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-224

  Erlandsson, Johan ^a   Vladimir, Kostylev ^a,b   Williams, Gray A ^c  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Fractal dimension; Habitat complexity; Random walk; Topography; Trail complexity

Indexed keywords

HONG KONG; MOVEMENT PATTERN; PHOTOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MOVEMENT; ROCKY SHORE; SUBSTRATE; TORTUOSITY;

CHINA;

CELLANA GRATA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0032783921     PISSN: 00785326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1999.10409396     Document Type: Article

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