Colóquio do IFUSP
Título: Animal movement and the Lévy flight foraging hypothesis
Palestrante: Madras Viswanathan Gandhi Mohan - UFRN
Data: 09.04. 2015
Horário: 16:00 horas
Local: Auditório Abrahão de Moraes Instituto de Física da USP
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Abstract: Until the 1980s it was assumed that at long times the movement of animals and humans conforms to normal diffusion, as opposed to anomalous diffusion. The main reason for this expectation is the central limit theorem. We briefly discuss these ideas and present evidence that animals do not in general diffuse like particles performing Brownian motion. We review the Lévy flight foraging hypothesis. Finally, we discuss human diffusion and the remarkable colonization of adagascar by Austronesians.
