A model of animal movements in a bounded space

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 443-451

  Jeanson, Raphaël ^a   Blanco, Stéphane ^b   Fournier, Richard ^b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^c   Fourcassié, Vincent ^a   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blattella germanica; Bounded space; Diffusion; Movement; Net displacement; Random walk; Structural guidelines; Thigmotaxis; Transport mean free path; Wall following

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA;

EID: 0242522198     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00277-7     Document Type: Article

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