Understanding movements of organisms: It's time to abandon the Lévy foraging hypothesis

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-16

  Pyke, Graham H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Directionality; Distance; Location; Optimal foraging theory; Power law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921479746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12298     Document Type: Review

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