Brownian motion or Lévy walk? Stepping towards an extended statistical mechanics for animal locomotion

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 74, 2012, Pages 2332-2340

  Gautestad, Arild O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Animal space use; Brownian motion; L vy walk; Multi scaled random walk; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION; DIFFERENT SCALE; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; LONG TERM MEMORY; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACHES; RANDOM WALK; SCALE-FREE; SPACE USE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TIME LAG;

ANIMALS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BROWNIAN MOTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LEVY WALK; LOCOMOTION; MECHANICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866174704     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0059     Document Type: Article

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