Optimal foraging strategies: Lévy walks balance searching and patch exploitation under a very broad range of conditions

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 358, Issue , 2014, Pages 179-193

  Humphries, Nicolas E ^a   Sims, David W ^a,b  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite Brownian; Movement; Power law; Predator; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPOSITE BROWNIAN WALK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORAGER; HUNGER; INVERSE SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; LEVY WALK; OPTIMAL FORAGING; PATCH STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREDATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREY ABUNDANCE; PREY TARGETING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84903525063     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.05.032     Document Type: Article

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