Are Lévy flight patterns derived from the Weber-Fechner law in distance estimation?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1219-1226

  Reynolds, Andy M ^a   Schultheiss, Patrick ^b   Cheng, Ken ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desert ants; Honeybees; L vy flights; Odometry; Searching behavior; Weber Fechner law

Indexed keywords

ANT; DESERT; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HONEYBEE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CATAGLYPHIS; FORMICIDAE; MELOPHORUS BAGOTI;

EID: 84880049552     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1549-y     Document Type: Article

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