Lévy-taxis: A novel search strategy for finding odor plumes in turbulent flow-dominated environments

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Volumn 42, Issue 43, 2009, Pages

  Pasternak, Zohar ^a   Bartumeus, Frederic ^b,c   Grasso, Frank W ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 72149102462     PISSN: 17518113     EISSN: 17518121     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/43/434010     Document Type: Article

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