Michael K. Musyl

TL;DR: Simulations show that predators have higher encounter rates when adopting Lévy-type foraging in natural-like prey fields compared with purely random landscapes, consistent with the hypothesis that observed search patterns are adapted to observed statistical patterns of the landscape.

TL;DR: Maximum-likelihood methods are used to test for Lévy patterns in relation to environmental gradients in the largest animal movement data set assembled for this purpose and results are consistent with the LÉvy-flight foraging hypothesis, supporting the contention that organism search strategies naturally evolved in such a way that they exploit optimal Lé Ivy patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deployed archival tags on 87 fish ranging in fork length from 50 to 154 cm and retrieved data from 10 tags, representing 474 days in aggregate.

TL;DR: Using blue sharks Prionace glauca, a model is developed to predict the long-term survival of released animals based on analysis of small blood samples that differentiated moribund sharks from survivors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a state-space Kalman filter statistical model was used to estimate geolocation errors, movement parameters, and most probable tracks from the recovered data, and the estimated movement parameters are consistent with the restricted scale of the observed movement and the apparent fidelity of bigeye to geographical points of attraction.