How many animals really do the Lévy walk?

By S. Benhamou. Ecology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Social Psychology

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Behavioral intermittence, Lévy patterns, and randomness in animal movement (2009, background): “In the field of animal movement, both the empirical evidence of fractal trajectories and its biological interpretation have always been controversial (Turchin 1996, Benhamou 2007, Edwards et al. 2007, Boyer et al. 2008, Reynolds 2008).”
Bootstrapping bilinear models of Simple Vehicles (2015, background): “These random processes are thought to describe the behavior of foraging animals (Benhamou, 2008).”
Understanding movements of organisms: it's time to abandon the Lévy foraging hypothesis (2015, background): “Some refer to the former as ‘simple’ or ‘mere’ random walks to distinguish them clearly from correlated random walks (Benhamou 2007; Codling, Plank & Benhamou 2008).”
Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and the functional loss of long‐distance seed‐dispersal services (2018, unknown): “2005, Benhamou 2007); 4) the composite correlated random walk (CCRW), which consists in a combination of two movement behaviors: an intensive search phase with more restricted movements and an extensive phase corresponding to nearly straight long distance steps (Auger-Méthé et al.”
Unpacking the Exploration–Exploitation Tradeoff: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Literatures (2015, background): “The prevalence and adaptive performance of both mechanisms is under debate (Benhamou, 2007; Hills et al., 2013; Humphries & Sims, 2014).”
Random walk models in biology (2008, background): “Such a process is known as a Lévy walk and has been extensively studied by physicists and more recently ecologists ( Viswanathan et al. 1996) although its general applicability to animal movement is still open to debate (Benhamou 2007; Edwards et al. 2007).”