Animals that randomly reorient at cues left by correlated random walkers do the lévy walk

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 607-613

  Reynolds, A M ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownian walk; Emergence; L vy walk; Optimal foraging

Indexed keywords

CANID; DOMINANCE; EMERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; ODOR; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PLANKTON;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EVOLUTION; LOCOMOTION; ODOR;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CUES; EVOLUTION; LOCOMOTION; ODORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951043506     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651617     Document Type: Article

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