Constructing a Stochastic Model of Bumblebee Flights from Experimental Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lenz, Friedrich ^a   Chechkin, Aleksei V ^b,c   Klages, Rainer ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c KHARKOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLIGHT; FORAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HYMENOPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84874765605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059036     Document Type: Article

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