Bonabeau E., Dagorn Laurent, Fréon Pierre. (1999). Scaling in animal group-size distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 96 (8), p. 4472-4477. ISSN 0027-8424.
Titre du document
Scaling in animal group-size distributions
Année de publication
1999
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Bonabeau E., Dagorn Laurent, Fréon Pierre
Source
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 1999,
96 (8), p. 4472-4477 ISSN 0027-8424
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The group-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 buffaloes. (Résumé d'auteur)
