CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS THE PHYSICS OF FORAGING 2011 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: THE PHYSICS OF FORAGING: AN INTRODUCTION TO RANDOM

SEARCHES AND BIOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS

PUBLISHER: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/KZe4ap RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.14

ISBN: 9781107006799 STORE DATE: 2011

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AUTHOR: PROFESSOR GANDHIMOHAN. M. VISWANATHAN

PROFESSOR MARCOS G. E. DA LUZ, PROFESSOR ERNESTO P. RAPOSO

H. EUGENE STANLEY



BOOK



Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns

that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If

so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of

scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging

from ecological matters to queries such as 'how can there be free

will if one follows a law of motion?' This is the first book on

this rapidly evolving subject, introducing random searches and

foraging in a way that can be understood by readers without a

previous background on the subject. It reviews theory as well as

experiment, addresses open problems and perspectives, and

discusses applications ranging from the colonization of

Madagascar by Austronesians to the diffusion of genetically

modified crops. The book will interest physicists working in the

field of anomalous diffusion and movement ecology as well as

ecologists already familiar with the concepts and methods of

statistical physics