Ultimate failure of the Lévy foraging hypothesis: two-scale searching strategies outperform scale-free ones even when prey are scarce and cryptic

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2015.09.034zbMath1343.92559OpenAlexW2179406555WikidataQ50924880 ScholiaQ50924880MaRDI QIDQ304621

Julien Collet, Simon Benhamou

Publication date: 26 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.09.034

zbMATH Keywords

Lévy walkinformation processingoptimal foragingcomposite Brownian walkdetection probabilitysearching efficiency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Animal behavior (92D50)

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Cites Work

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

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