Mobile pastoralists in the logone floodplain distribute themselves in an ideal free distribution

Current Anthropology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-122

  Moritz, Mark ^a   Hamilton, Ian M ^a   Chen, Yu Jen ^a   Scholte, Paul ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University 390 Aronoff Laboratory ^*  (Netherlands)

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EID: 84893106256     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674717     Document Type: Article

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