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

Edwards, Andrew M., Phillips, Richard A., Watkins, Nicholas W., Freeman, Mervyn P., Murphy, Eugene J., Afanasyev, Vsevolod, Buldyrev, Sergey V., da Luz, M. G. E., Raposo, E. P., Stanley, H. Eugene, Viswanathan, Gandhimohan M.·2007·Nature
DOI 10.1038/nature06199
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Authors
Edwards, A. M., Phillips, R. A., Watkins, N. W., Freeman, M. P., Murphy, E. J., Afanasyev, V., Buldyrev, S. V., da Luz, M. G. E., Raposo, E. P., Stanley, H. E., & Viswanathan, G. M.
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Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2007-10
Volume
449
Issue
7165
Pages
1044-1048
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/nature06199
OpenAlex
W2170486501
Cited by
925
References
1
FWCI
18.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)

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Edwards, A. M., Phillips, R. A., Watkins, N. W., Freeman, M. P., Murphy, E. J., Afanasyev, V., Buldyrev, S. V., da Luz, M. G. E., Raposo, E. P., Stanley, H. E., & Viswanathan, G. M. (2007). Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06199

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