Evidence for biological L\'evy flights stands
Populations and Evolution
2008-02-14 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Edwards et al. [Nature 449, 1044-1048 (2007)] revisited well-known studies reporting power-laws in the frequency distribution of flight duration of wandering albatrosses, and concluded that no L\'evy process could model recent observations with higher resolution. Here we show that this re-analysis suffers from a conceptual misunderstanding, and that the new albatross data remain consistent with a biological L\'evy flight.
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@article{arxiv.0802.1762,
title = {Evidence for biological L\'evy flights stands},
author = {Denis Boyer and Octavio Miramontes and Gabriel Ramos-Fernández},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.1762},
year = {2008}
}
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6 page, 1 figure