Animal search strategies: A quantitative random-walk analysis

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3078-3087

  Bartumeus, Frederic ^a,b   Da Luz, M G E ^c   Viswanathan, G M ^d   Catalan, J ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Correlated random walks; Foraging theory; L vy walks; Random search strategies

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27944498182     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1806     Document Type: Article

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