Variation in individual walking behavior creates the impression of a Lévy flight

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8704-8707

  Petrovskii, Sergei ^a   Mashanova, Alla ^b   Jansen, Vincent A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Diffusion; Movement ecology; Random walk; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

APHID; ARTICLE; LEVY FLIGHT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MOVEMENT; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; APHIS FABAE;

EID: 79957743804     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015208108     Document Type: Article

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