Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1595, 2006, Pages 1743-1750

  Boyer, Denis ^a   Ramos Fernández, Gabriel ^b   Miramontes, Octavio ^a   Mateos, José L ^a   Cocho, Germinal ^a   Larralde, Hernán ^c   Ramos, Humberto ^a   Rojas, Fernando ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^d BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Foraging; L vy walks; Scale invariance; Seed dispersal; Spider monkeys

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; RESOURCE USE; SEED DISPERSAL;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEBIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; CEBIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRIMATES;

EID: 33746851316     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3462     Document Type: Article

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