Group navigation and the "many-wrongs principle" in models of animal movement

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1864-1870

  Codling, E A ^a,d   Pitchford, J W ^b   Simpson, S D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Animal dispersal; Animal grouping; Animal movement; Biased random walk; Individual based model; Many wrongs principle; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROUP SIZE; MOVEMENT; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548397263     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0854.1     Document Type: Article

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