Prey field switching based on preferential behaviour can induce Lévy flights

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 78, 2013, Pages

  Lundy, Mathieu G ^a,b   Harrison, Alan ^c   Buckley, Daniel J ^a,d   Boston, Emma S ^a,d   Scott, David D ^a   Teeling, Emma C ^a,d   Montgomery, W Ian ^a   Houghton, Jonathan D R ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Areoecology; Bats; Functional responses; L vy flight

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

AREOECOLOGY; BATS; BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD SWITCHING; FORAGING BEHAVIOURS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; MOVEMENT PATTERN; NATURAL SYSTEMS; PREDATOR-PREY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL SCALE;

OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLYING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEVY FLIGHT; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PREY; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; BAT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL;

EID: 84871263431     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0489     Document Type: Article

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