Scaling in animal group-size distributions
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- 13 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 96 (8) , 4472-4477
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.8.4472
Abstract
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The group-size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with data that describe the group-size distributions of tuna fish, sardinellas, and African buffaloes.Keywords
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