Fitness-maximizing foragers can use information about patch quality to decide how to search for and within patches: optimal Levy walk searching patterns from optimal foraging theory

Animals That Randomly Reorient at Cues Left by Correlated Random Walkers Do the Lévy Walk

(2010) A. M. Reynolds   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

(2010) Nicolas E. Humphries et al.   NATURE

Balancing the competing demands of harvesting and safety from predation: Lévy walk searches outperform composite Brownian walk searches but only when foraging under the risk of predation

(2010) A.M. Reynolds   PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

The Lévy flight paradigm: random search patterns and mechanisms

(2009) A. M. Reynolds et al.   ECOLOGY

Optimal search behavior and classic foraging theory

(2009) F Bartumeus et al.   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Behavioral intermittence, Lévy patterns, and randomness in animal movement

(2009) F. Bartumeus   OIKOS

ON ESTIMATING THE EXPONENT OF POWER-LAW FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS

(2008) Ethan P. White et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

(2008) David W. Sims et al.   NATURE

Deterministic walks with inverse-square power-law scaling are an emergent property of predators that use chemotaxis to locate randomly distributed prey

(2008) A. M. Reynolds   PHYSICAL REVIEW E