Modelling the mobility of living organisms in heterogeneous landscapes: Does memory improve foraging success?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1933, 2010, Pages 5645-5659

  Boyer, Denis ^a,b   Walsh, Peter D ^c  

^a Lab de Physique Théorique   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c VaccmApe   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Ecology; Foraging behaviour; Mobility patterns; Random media; Search processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOLOGY; MAMMALS; MOBILE AGENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; MOBILITY PATTERN; RANDOM MEDIA; SEARCH PROCESS;

BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MEMORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 78650423643     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0275     Document Type: Article

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