Sentence examples for mean group size from inspiring English sources

Group size is analyzed as a continuous character using the highest mean group size found in the literature, and also as a discrete character which allows the inclusion of more species [see Additional file 6] since many authors do not provide a mean value but instead offer a description of group sizes.

Dunbar did the math, using a ratio of neocortical volume to total brain volume and mean group size, and came up with a number.

For seabirds, aerial survey datasets had a slightly higher mean group size over the shipboard datasets (mean = 6 and 4, respectively).

Tissue biopsies were taken from the tail tips of 31 adult and 89 juveniles, with groups of individuals (mean group size ± SD; 4.19±1.67) sampled from 26 burrow systems.

We tested the presence of Lévy movement-length distributions for 235 paths, for both solitary (70 deer, 437 moves) and clustered (mean group size 4.9±2.8 sd) deer (165 deer, 2515 moves), showing that solitary deer actually performed Lévy walks while clustered deer did not.

The mean group size was 3.6 animals.

Sea turtle mean group sizes did not differ among platforms (mean = 1).

Our manipulation successfully created different mean group sizes even after some free-living beetles entered the chambers and some experimental beetles left (t58 = 15.08, p<0.001).

The estimated mean social group size in England and Wales was 6.74 (±0.63) badgers.

The standard uncertainty of the estimated mean social group size for each LCG was provided by the standard deviation of the 1000 estimates.

Although we may expect the variation in the number of individuals per social group to be best described by a distribution that is consistent with over-dispersed counts, such as a negative binomial, the uncertainty associated with mean social group size in each LCG was found to be sufficiently well approximated by a normal distribution based on the observed distribution of bootstrap estimates.