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Biotic populations are usually distributed heterogeneously in their habitats, and the distribution itself is often patchy. In ecology, we conventionally classify the structure of dispersion into three categories: Frequency distributions may be random, uniform (regular), or clumped (contagious) (Fig. 9.1).
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Okubo, A., Mitchell, J.G. (2001). Patchy Distribution and Diffusion. In: Diffusion and Ecological Problems: Modern Perspectives. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 14. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4978-6_9
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