3 papers
q-bio.PE2019
Caching in or falling back at the Sevilleta
Justin D. Yeakel, Uttam Bhat, Seth D. Newsome
Foraging in uncertain environments requires balancing the risks associated with finding alternative resources against potential gains. In aridland environments characterized by ext…
cond-mat.stat-mech2018
The Advantage of Foraging Myopically
C. L. Rager, U. Bhat, O. Bénichou +1
We study the dynamics of a \emph{myopic} forager that randomly wanders on a lattice in which each site contains one unit of food. Upon encountering a food-containing site, the fora…
q-bio.PE2018
Edge fires drive the shape and stability of tropical forests
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Uttam Bhat +3
In tropical regions, fires propagate readily in grasslands but typically consume only edges of forest patches. Thus forest patches grow due to tree propagation and shrink by fires…