A general model of forager search: adaptive encounter-conditional heuristics outperform Lévy flights in the search for patchily distributed prey

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2018.07.031zbMath1406.92724OpenAlexW2883831553WikidataQ57467561 ScholiaQ57467561MaRDI QIDQ1714337

Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Cody T. Ross

Publication date: 31 January 2019

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r08c1tm

zbMATH Keywords

foraging theorysearchanimal movementLévy flightcorrelated random walkarea restricted searchencounters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Ecology (92D40) Animal behavior (92D50)

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Uses Software

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• RStan
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