Climate change has become increasingly severe, threatening ecosystem stability and, in
particular, biodiversity. As a typical indicator of ecosystem evolution, vegetation growth is …

We review the general search problem of how to find randomly located objects that can only
be detected in the limited vicinity of a forager, and discuss its quantitative description using …

We address the general question of what is the best statistical strategy to adapt in order to
search efficiently for randomly located objects ('target sites'). It is often assumed in foraging …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

The study of animal foraging behaviour is of practical ecological importance, and
exemplifies the wider scientific problem of optimizing search strategies. Lévy flights are …

Recent theory suggests that animals should switch facultatively among canonical movement
modes as a complex function of internal state, landscape characteristics, motion capacity …

Radio Tracking and Animal Populations is a succinct synthesis of emerging technologies
and their applications to the empirical and theoretical problems of population assessment …

Interest in L évy walks within the context of movement of organisms has recently soared, with
some now referring to this approach as the L évy walk/flight paradigm. The principal …

The searching trajectories of different animals can be described with a broad class of flight
length (lj) distributions with P (lj)= lj–μ. Theoretical studies have shown that changes in these …

Ecologists sometimes have a less-than-rigorous background in quantitative methods, yet
research within this broad field is becoming increasingly mathematical. Written in a step-by …