Random walk analysis of ranging patterns of sympatric langurs in a complex resource landscape

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1209-1219

  Vandercone, Rajnish ^a,b   Premachandra, Kaushalya ^c   Wijethunga, Gayan Pradeep ^d   Dinadh, Chameera ^d   Ranawana, Kithsiri ^e   Bahar, Sonya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

L vy flights; Ranging; Semnopithecus; Sri Lanka; Trachypithecus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FEEDING; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; RESOURCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYMPATRY;

SRI LANKA;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; SEMNOPITHECUS; TRACHYPITHECUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; LÉVY FLIGHTS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANGING; SEMNOPITHECUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SRI LANKA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRACHYPITHECUS;

LÉVY FLIGHTS; RANGING; SEMNOPITHECUS; SRI LANKA; TRACHYPITHECUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84885427028     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22183     Document Type: Article

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