How superdiffusion gets arrested: Ecological encounters explain shift from Lévy to Brownian movement

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1774, 2013, Pages

  de Jager, Monique ^a,b,c   Bartumeus, Frederic ^d   Kölzsch, Andrea ^e   Weissing, Franz J ^b   Hengeveld, Geerten M ^e   Nolet, Bart A ^e   Herman, Peter M J ^a   van de Koppel, Johan ^a,b,e  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Brownian motion; L vy walk; Mytilus edulis; Resource density; Search efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BROWNIAN MOTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALIA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 84887553660     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2605     Document Type: Article

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