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ArticleRoyal Society open science2017

The Weierstrassian movement patterns of snails.

Andy Reynolds, Giacomo Santini, Guido Chelazzi, Stefano Focardi

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Weierstrassian Lévy walks are a by-product of crawling.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Andy ReynoldsRothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7103-3841
Giacomo SantiniDipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Guido ChelazziDipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via Madonna del Piano, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Stefano FocardiISC-CNR, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Weierstrassian Lévy walks are the archetypical form of random walk that do not satisfy the central limit theorem and are instead characterized by scale invariance. They were originally regarded as a mathematical abstraction but subsequent theoretical studies showed that they can, in principle, at least, be generated by chaos. Recently, Weierstrassian Lévy walks have been found to provide accurate representations of the movement patterns of mussels (

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behavioural plasticitychaosintertidal molluscsLévy flight foraging hypothesislimpetsPatella

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PMID28680656
PMCPMC5493898

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