Functional advantages of Lévy walks emerging near a critical point

MS Abe - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A special class of random walks, so-called Lévy walks, has been observed in a variety of
organisms ranging from cells, insects, fishes, and birds to mammals, including humans …

Tree size distribution as the stationary limit of an evolutionary master equation

S Kelemen, M Józsa, T Hartel, G Csóka, Z Néda - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The diameter distribution of a given species of deciduous trees is well approximated by a
Gamma distribution. Here we give new experimental evidence for this conjecture by …

Ants determine their next move at rest: motor planning and causality in complex systems

ER Hunt, RJ Baddeley, A Worley… - Royal Society …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To find useful work to do for their colony, individual eusocial animals have to move,
somehow staying attentive to relevant social information. Recent research on individual …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of the hierarchical lockdown control measure on the dynamic mechanism of individuals' locomotor activities

J Gao, C Gu, H Yang, C Shen - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has been spreading all over the world, causing a serious blow to
human beings. The hierarchical lockdown control measure, which is widely used, can …

Recurrence analysis of ant activity patterns

FM Neves, RL Viana, MR Pie - Plos One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In this study, we used recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) and recurrence plots (RPs)
to compare the movement activity of individual workers of three ant species, as well as a …

Measuring locomotor strategies of freely moving previsual rat pups

IS Midzyanovskaya, VV Strelkov - Behavioural Processes, 2022 - Elsevier
Blind walks of previsual rat pups in the open field test were analyzed for random
components and/or strategies of locomotion. Wistar infants (n= 51) on their 13th postnatal …

Animal intermittent locomotion: a null model for the probability of moving forward in bounded space

K Christensen, L Cocconi… - Journal of Theoretical …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a null model to be compared with biological data to test for intrinsic persistence
in movement between stops during intermittent locomotion in bounded space with different …

[HTML][HTML] How we move is universal: scaling in the average shape of human activity

DR Chialvo, AM Gonzalez Torrado… - Papers in …, 2015 - SciELO Argentina
How we move is universal: Scaling in the average shape of human activity SciELO -
Scientific Electronic Library Online vol.7 número2 Flow rate of polygonal grains through a …

Modeling ants' walks in patrolling multiple resources using stochastic approximation partial momentum refreshment

J Cao, Y Zhou, K Wei - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In the realm of ant foraging studies, researchers commonly map the movement of ant
colonies to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) models based on the probability matching …

How ants move: individual and collective scaling properties

R Gallotti, DR Chialvo - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The motion of social insects is often used as a paradigmatic example of complex adaptive
dynamics arising from decentralized individual behaviour. In this paper, we revisit the topic …