Sensing and decision-making in random search

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

Volumn 109, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 12070-12074

  Hein, Andrew M ^a   McKinley, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological search; Foraging; Movement ecology; Plume tracking; Search algorithm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864355819     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202686109     Document Type: Article

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