A general model of forager search: Adaptive encounter-conditional heuristics outperform Lévy flights in the search for patchily distributed prey.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.07.031
Abstract: A theoretical and applied literature has suggested that foragers search using Lévy flights, since Lévy flights can maximize the efficiency of search in the absence of information on the location of randomly distributed prey. Foragers,… read more here.
Keywords: distributed prey; general model; search; encounter conditional ... See more keywords