Truncated power laws: A tool for understanding aggregation patterns in animals?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 90-94

  Sjöberg, Mikael ^a   Albrectsen, Benedicte ^a   Hjältén, Joakim ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aggregation patterns; Frequency distribution; Group size; Truncated power law

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034009129     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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