HOW MANY ANIMALS REALLY DO THE LÉVY WALK?
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- 1 August 2007
- Vol. 88 (8) , 1962-1969
- https://doi.org/10.1890/06-1769.1
Abstract
Lévy walks (LW) are superdiffusive and scale-free random walks that have recently emerged as a new conceptual tool for modeling animal search paths. They have been claimed to be more efficient than t...Keywords
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