Fractal bird nest distribution produces scale-free colony sizes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1624, 2007, Pages 2465-2469

  Jovani, Roger ^a   Tella, José L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ciconia; Coloniality; Colony size; Fractal; Nest distribution; Power law

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COLONIAL ORGANISM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NEST; POWER LAW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WADER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLONIAL SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CICONIA; CICONIA CICONIA; CICONIIDAE;

EID: 34548785577     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0527     Document Type: Article

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