Gandhimohan M Viswanathan, Marcos G E Da Luz, Ernesto P Raposo, H Eugene Stanley

The Physics of Foraging

An Introduction to Random Searches and Biological Encounters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing random searches and foraging for physicists and ecologists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 182mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781107006799
• ISBN-10: 1107006791
• Artikelnr.: 32899609

Autorenporträt

Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan is Professor of Physics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, where he spent over a decade investigating the complex phenomenology seen in physical, biological and economic systems.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: Movement: 1. Empirical motivation for studying movement
2. Statistical physics of biological motion
3. Random walks and Lévy flights
4. Wandering albatrosses
Part II. Experimental Findings: 5. Early studies
6. Evidence of anomalous diffusion
7. Human dispersal
8. How strong is the evidence?
Part III. Theory of Foraging: 9. Optimizing encounter rates
10. Lévy flight foraging
11. Other search models
Part IV. Finale: A Broader Context: 12. Superdiffusive random searches
13. Adaptational versus emergent superdiffusion
14. Perspectives and open problems
Appendices
References
Index.