The physics of foraging an introduction to random searches and biological encounters
"Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging from ecological matters to queries such...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38423364*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Part I: Introduction: Movement; 1 Empirical motivation for studying movement; 2 Statistical physics of biological motion; 3 Random walks and Levy flights; 4 The wandering albatross; Part Ii: Experimental findings; 5 Early studies; 6 Evidence of anomalous diffusion; 7 Human dispersal; 8 How strong is the evidence?; Part Iii: Theory of foraging; 9 Optimizing encounter rates; 10 Levy flight foraging; 11 Other search models; Part Iv: Finale: A broader context; 12 Superdiffusive random searches.
- 13 Adaptational versus emergent superdiffusion14 Perspectives and open problems; Appendix A: Data analysis; A.1 A criterion for inferring superdiffusion; A.2 Log-log plots and surrounding controversies; A.3 Maximum likelihood estimation; Appendix B: Levy walkers inside absorbing boundaries; References; Index.
