Hierarchical random walks in trace fossils and the origin of optimal search behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 11073-11078

  Sims, David W ^a,b   Reynolds, Andrew M ^c   Humphries, Nicolas E ^a   Southall, Emily J ^a   Wearmouth, Victoria J ^a   Metcalfe, Brett ^d   Twitchett, Richard J ^e  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Climate change; Scale invariance; Superdiffusion

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; SCALE INVARIANCE; SUPERDIFFUSION;

APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84905042767     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405966111     Document Type: Article

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