Power-law versus exponential distributions of animal group sizes

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 224, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-457

  Niwa, Hiro Sato ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal group; Power law; Size distribution; Stochastic differential equation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GROUP SIZE; POWER LAW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; FISH; HERBIVORY; LAW; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 0042884410     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00192-9     Document Type: Article

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