A levy flight-random walk model for bioturbation

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 875-881

  Reible, Danny ^a   Mohanty, Sanat ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthos; Bioturbation; Levy flights; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DIFFUSION; IMPURITIES; SEDIMENTS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

LATTICE MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

PYRENE;

BIOTURBATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOTURBATION; FEEDING; FLIGHT; FORAGING; MICROCOSM; MIGRATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENT DYES; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; OLIGOCHAETA; PYRENES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; LIMNODRILUS; LIMNODRILUS HOFFMEISTERI;

EID: 0036556333     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2002)021<0875:ALFRWM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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