dc.contributor.author | Petrovskii, Sergei | |
dc.contributor.author | Mashanova, Alla | |
dc.contributor.author | Jansen, Vincent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-24T14:55:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-04-24T14:55:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-05-24 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Petrovskii , S , Mashanova , A & Jansen , V 2011 , ' Variation in individual walking behaviour creates the impression of a Lévy flight ' , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , vol. 108 , no. 21 , pp. 8704-8707 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015208108 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0027-8424 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 1453380 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: fa946235-f6b8-4c38-a2b5-6160a320d2cb | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 79957743804 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3273-8184/work/74071745 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/10517 | |
dc.description.abstract | Many animal paths have an intricate statistical pattern that manifests itself as a power law-like tail in the distribution of movement lengths. Such distributions occur if individuals move according to a Lévy flight (a mode of dispersal in which the distance moved follows a power law), or if there is variation between individuals such that some individuals move much farther than others. Distinguishing between these two mechanisms requires large quantities of data, which are not available for most species studied. Here, we analyze paths of black bean aphids (Aphis fabae Scopoli) and show that individual animals move in a predominantly diffusive manner, but that, because of variation at population level, they collectively appear to display superdiffusive characteristics, often interpreted as being characteristic for a Lévy flight. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | |
dc.title | Variation in individual walking behaviour creates the impression of a Lévy flight | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Human and Environmental Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | Health & Human Sciences Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | Geography, Environment and Agriculture | |
dc.contributor.institution | Ecology | |
dc.contributor.institution | Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | Crop Protection and Climate Change | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.pnas.org/content/108/21/8704.full | |
rioxxterms.version | SMUR | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015208108 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |