Scaling in Animal Group-Size Distributions

An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The gorup size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with data that describe the group size distributions of tuna fish, sardinellas, and African buffalos.<p> <p> To appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

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Year of publication:	1999-01
Authors:	Bonabeau, Eric ; Dagorn, Laurent ; Freon, Pierre
Institutions:	Santa Fe Institute
Subject:	Fish schools \| herds \| group-size statistics \| scaling

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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