How many animals really do the Lévy walk?

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1962-1969

  Benhamou, Simon ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusive walks; L vy flight; Optimal foraging; Path modeling; Search pattern

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BROWNIAN MOTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35148881262     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1769.1     Document Type: Article

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