Lévy flights search patterns of biological organisms

G. M. Viswanathan, V. Afanasyev, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, M. G.E. Da Luz, E. P. Raposo, H. Eugene Stanley

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Abstract

We discuss recent findings suggesting that an inverse square probability density distribution P(ℓ)∼ℓ-2 of step lengths ℓ leads to an optimal random search strategy for organisms that can search efficiently for randomly located objects that can only be detected in the limited vicinity of the searcher and can be revisited any number of times. We explore the extent to which these findings may be dependent on the dimensionality of the search space and the presence of short-range correlations in the step lengths and directions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)85-88
Number of pages4
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume295
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2001
EventProceedings of the IUPAP International Conference on New Trends in the Fractal Aspects of Complex Systems - Maceio, Brazil
Duration: 16 Oct 200020 Oct 2000

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank CNPq, FAPEAL, NSF, and NIH for financial support.

Funding

We thank CNPq, FAPEAL, NSF, and NIH for financial support.

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

    Keywords

    • Biological foraging
    • Lévy flights

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