Beyond optimal searching: Recent developments in the modelling of animal movement patterns as lévy walks

Lecture Notes in Mathematics

Volumn 2071, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-76

  Reynolds, Andy ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35497-7_3     Document Type: Article

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