A first principles derivation of animal group size distributions

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-43

  Ma, Qi ^a   Johansson, Anders ^a   Sumpter, David J T ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Merge and split dynamics; The logarithmic distribution; Truncated power law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79958031795     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.04.031     Document Type: Article

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