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4.4 Area searched by a ‘Simon forager’

Random walks and mobile entities
4.1 Random walks
4.2 The correlation length effect in random walks
4.3 Simon’s satisficing forager model on a lattice
4.4 Area searched by a ‘Simon forager’
4.5 Foraging in a heterogeneous environment
4.6 The effect of environmental change on movement
4.7 Flocking

4.4 Area searched by a ‘Simon forager’

Results from this model are used in figure 4.12 to demonstrate the relationship between movement tortuosity and search efficiency.

4.3 Simon’s satisficing forager model on a lattice

4.5 Foraging in a heterogeneous environment