Area‐restricted search is the capacity to change search effort adaptively in response to
resource encounters or expectations, from directional exploration (global, extensive search) …

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 …

Ecological theory predicts that animal movement is shaped by its efficiency of resource
acquisition. Focusing solely on efficiency, however, ignores the fact that animal activity can …

With recent technological advances in tracking devices, movements of numerous animal
species can be recorded with a high resolution over large spatial and temporal ranges. This …

People and other animals can search for information inside their heads. Where does this
ability come from, and what does it enable cognitive systems to do? In this article, we …

Random walk methods and diffusion theory pervaded ecological sciences as methods to
analyze and describe animal movement. Consequently, statistical physics was mostly seen …

The hypothesis that the optimal search strategy is a Lévy walk (LW) or Lévy flight, originally
suggested in 1995, has generated an explosion of interest and controversy. Long-standing …

Flowers emit mixtures of scents that mediate plant-insect interactions such as attracting
insect pollinators. Because of their volatile nature, however, floral scents readily react with …

We study through a reaction-diffusion algorithm the influence of landscape diversity on the
efficiency of search dynamics. Remarkably, the identical optimal search strategy arises in a …

The characterization of the dispersal of populations of non-identical individuals is relevant to
most ecological and epidemiological processes. In practice, the movement is quantified by …