Behavioral intermittence, Lévy patterns, and randomness in animal movement

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 488-494

  Bartumeus, F ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOTELEMETRY; MOVEMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 63849243368     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17313.x     Document Type: Article

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