Minimizing errors in identifying Lévy flight behaviour of organisms

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-229

  Sims, David W ^a   Righton, David ^b   Pitchford, Jonathan W ^c  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Optimal foraging theory; Random walk; Search strategy

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HISTOGRAM; INTERPOLATION; MOVEMENT; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SIMULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846950846     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01208.x     Document Type: Article

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