Distinguishing technology from biology: a critical review of the use of GPS telemetry data in ecology

M Hebblewhite, DT Haydon - … Transactions of the …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the past decade, ecologists have witnessed vast improvements in our ability to collect
animal movement data through animal-borne technology, such as through GPS or ARGOS …

Intermittent search strategies

O Bénichou, C Loverdo, M Moreau, R Voituriez - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011‏ - APS
This review examines intermittent target search strategies, which combine phases of slow
motion, allowing the searcher to detect the target, and phases of fast motion during which …

Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic

A Faramarzi, M Heidarinejad, S Mirjalili… - Expert systems with …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a nature-inspired metaheuristic called Marine Predators Algorithm
(MPA) and its application in engineering. The main inspiration of MPA is the widespread …

Optimal power flow using moth swarm algorithm

AAA Mohamed, YS Mohamed, AAM El-Gaafary… - Electric Power Systems …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This work presents a novel Moth Swarm Algorithm (MSA), inspired by the orientation of
moths towards moonlight to solve constrained Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem. The …

Anomalous diffusion models and their properties: non-stationarity, non-ergodicity, and ageing at the centenary of single particle tracking

R Metzler, JH Jeon, AG Cherstvy… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Modern microscopic techniques following the stochastic motion of labelled tracer particles
have uncovered significant deviations from the laws of Brownian motion in a variety of …

Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

NE Humphries, N Queiroz, JRM Dyer, NG Pade… - Nature, 2010‏ - nature.com
An optimal search theory, the so-called Lévy-flight foraging hypothesis, predicts that
predators should adopt search strategies known as Lévy flights where prey is sparse and …

Optimizing Gaussian process regression (GPR) hyperparameters with three metaheuristic algorithms for viscosity prediction of suspensions containing …

T Hai, A Basem, A Alizadeh, K Sharma, DJ Jasim… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Suspensions containing microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCMs) play a
crucial role in thermal energy storage (TES) systems and have applications in building …

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

DW Sims, EJ Southall, NE Humphries, GC Hays… - Nature, 2008‏ - nature.com
Many free-ranging predators have to make foraging decisions with little, if any, knowledge of
present resource distribution and availability. The optimal search strategy they should use to …

Animal search strategies: a quantitative random‐walk analysis

F Bartumeus, MGE da Luz, GM Viswanathan… - Ecology, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in spatial ecology have improved our understanding of the role of large‐
scale animal movements. However, an unsolved problem concerns the inherent …

Search with home returns provides advantage under high uncertainty

A Pal, Ł Kuśmierz, S Reuveni - Physical Review Research, 2020‏ - APS
Many search processes are conducted in the vicinity of a favored location, ie, a home, which
is visited repeatedly. Foraging animals return to their dens and nests to rest, scouts return to …