Evidence for intermittency and a truncated power law from highly resolved aphid movement data

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 199-208

  Mashanova, Alla ^a   Oliver, Tom H ^b,c   Jansen, Vincent A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intermittency; L vy walk; Power law; Scale free distribution; Super diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MOVEMENT; BROWNIAN MOTION; DATA POINTS; DATA SETS; FAST MOVEMENT; INTERMITTENCY; MEAN SQUARED DISPLACEMENT; POWER LAW; RANDOM WALK; RANDOM-WALK THEORY; SCALE-FREE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL ASPECTS; TURNING ANGLES; TWO PHASIS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

APHID; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE;

EID: 72949084259     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0121     Document Type: Article

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