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This chapter discusses models that, by being applied to sets of individuals, do not demand any specific collective properties for these sets, as group or population models do. Some models have been explicitly applied to aggregations that are the result of the conglomeration of individuals in patches because of the concentration of resources on those sites. Other models simply emphasise environmental properties and use measurements of abundance or occurrences of sets of individuals without any specification of the properties of these sets. Although these models may be applied to groups and populations, they are preferably included in the category of aggregations. Finally, some models included in this chapter have the ability to incorporate levels of complexity in a way that can be applied to aggregations, groups, and populations.
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Cassini, M.H. (2013). Distribution of Aggregations. In: Distribution Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6415-0_3
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