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SUBMITTER: Reynolds A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5493898 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reynolds Andy A Santini Giacomo G Chelazzi Guido G Focardi Stefano S
Royal Society open science 20170607 6
Weierstrassian Lévy walks are the archetypical form of random walk that do not satisfy the central limit theorem and are instead characterized by scale invariance. They were originally regarded as a mathematical abstraction but subsequent theoretical studies showed that they can, in principle, at least, be generated by chaos. Recently, Weierstrassian Lévy walks have been found to provide accurate representations of the movement patterns of mussels (<i>Mytilus edulis</i>) and mud snails (<i>Hydro ...[more]