How to reliably estimate the tortuosity of an animal's path: straightness, sinuosity, or fractal dimension?

DOI10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.016zbMath1440.92072OpenAlexW135426905WikidataQ59443963 ScholiaQ59443963MaRDI QIDQ2189276

Simon Benhamou

Publication date: 15 June 2020

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.016

zbMATH Keywords

diffusionorientationrandom searchfractal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Fractals (28A80) Animal behavior (92D50)

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