Using likelihood to test for Lévy flight search patterns and for general power-law distributions in nature

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1212-1222

  Edwards, Andrew M ^a,b  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Akaike weights; Animal foraging; Animal movement; Pareto distribution; Random walks

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; FLIGHT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HISTOGRAM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; PINNIPED; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

ANIMALIA; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS;

EID: 53949119324     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01428.x     Document Type: Article

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