Supplementary material from "Tidal drift removes the need for area-restricted search in foraging Atlantic puffins"

• Main Authors: Bennison, Ashley, Quinn, John L., Debney, Alison, Jessopp, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Figshare 2019
• Subjects: Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; 60801 Animal Behaviour; Levy; Atlantic puffin; fratercula; Fratercula arctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4551716.v1; https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Tidal_drift_removes_the_need_for_area-restricted_search_in_foraging_Atlantic_puffins_/4551716/1

Understanding how animals forage is a central objective in ecology. Theory suggests that where food is uniformly distributed, Brownian movement ensures maximum prey encounter rate, but when prey is patchy, the optimal strategy resembles a Lévy walk where Area-restricted search (ARS) is interspersed...