Environmental context explains LÃ ©vy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7301, 2010, Pages 1066-1069

  Humphries, Nicolas E ^a,b   Queiroz, Nuno ^a,c,d   Dyer, Jennifer R M ^a   Pade, Nicolas G ^a,d   Musyl, Michael K ^e   Schaefer, Kurt M ^f   Fuller, Daniel W ^f   Brunnschweiler, Juerg M ^g   Doyle, Thomas K ^h   Houghton, Jonathan D R ⁱ   Hays, Graeme C ^j   Jones, Catherine S ^d   Noble, Leslie R ^d   Wearmouth, Victoria J ^a   Southall, Emily J ^a   Sims, David W ^a,b  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

ⁱ QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^j SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PREDATOR; PREY LOCATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY MEMORY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THEORY-PRACTICE RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FISHES; FOOD; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCOMOTION; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCIFORMES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER; SHARKS; SWIMMING;

EID: 77953937789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09116     Document Type: Article

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