Understanding animal group-size distributions.

One of the most striking aspects of animal groups is their remarkable variation in size, both within and between species. While a number of mechanistic models have been proposed to explain this variation, there are few comprehensive datasets against which these models have been tested. In particular...

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Main Authors: Michael Griesser, Qi Ma, Simone Webber, Katharine Bowgen, David J T Sumpter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3166056?pdf=render