Common ecology quantifies human insurgency

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7275, 2009, Pages 911-914

  Bohorquez, Juan Camilo ^a   Gourley, Sean ^b   Dixon, Alexander R ^c   Spagat, Michael ^d   Johnson, Neil F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL MARKET; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE;

AFGHANISTAN; COLOMBIA; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; IRAQ; MODELS, ECONOMIC; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 72449163469     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08631     Document Type: Article

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