Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer

By Andrew M. Edwards, R. Phillips, N. Watkins, M. Freeman, E. Murphy, V. Afanasyev, Sergey V. Buldyrev, M. Luz, E. Raposo, H. Eugene Stanley and 1 more. Nature, 2007

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Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data (2017, methodology): “In applications, the validity of this assumption could be investigated using goodness-of-fit tests and Akaike Information Criteria (e.g. Edwards et al. 2007; Edwards 2011).”
Animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes: identifying profitable places and homogeneous movement bouts. (2008, background): “When R become relatively large, the circles set at successive path locations overlap to a large extent, so that even the DR values measured at distant times along the path remain autocorrelated, leading to an artefactual decrease in Var[log(DR)].”
Understanding movement data and movement processes: current and emerging directions. (2008, background): “The case for Lévy flights has been called into question recently by Edwards et al. (2007).”
Free as a bird? Activity patterns of albatrosses during the nonbreeding period (2010, background): “…that the maximum observed flight bout durations of nonbreeding wandering, greyheaded and black-browed albatrosses of 18, 13 and 16 h, respectively, were remarkably similar to those reported in previous studies during the breeding season (Weimerskirch & Guionnet 2002, Edwards et al. 2007).”
Intermittent search strategies (2011, background): “However, apart from the controversial albatrosses study (Edwards et al., 2007), there is a boom in articles claiming that Lévy behavior is observed for some animal species.”
The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years? (2013, background): “Such anomalous diffusion behaviours have been studied both in plants and animals (Nathan 2006; Edwards et al. 2007), and they are of direct relevance in the study of how species respond to global change and thus to determine the threshold for population and metapopulation extinctions .”
Understanding movements of organisms: it's time to abandon the Lévy foraging hypothesis (2015, methodology): “Initial statistical methods were shown to be fundamentally flawed (Edwards et al. 2007, 2012; Edwards 2011).”