Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free

While heterogeneity in social behaviour has been described in many human contexts it is often assumed to be less common in the animal kingdom even though scale-free networks are observed. This homogeneity raises the question of whether the patterns of behaviour necessary to account for scale-free so...

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Main Authors: Alex James, Jeanette C. McLeod, Carlos Rouco, Kyle S. Richardson, Daniel M. Tompkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.171209