The Equation on the seventh line of the Figure 3 legend is incorrect. The legend with the corrected equation is available here:
Figure 3. Frequency distribution of colony sizes across years in the Ebro Valley.
A, Lineal histograms; x: colony size in lineal bins of five nests; y:
frequency of colonies. B, Lineally binned log-log plots; x: no-binned (i.e.
binned with bin length = 1) colony sizes, i.e. 1, 2, 3…; y: Log(frequency of
colonies) i.e. 0 means 100 = 1; 1 means 101 = 10, etc.
Inset numbers indicate the R
2 of the fit of each
distribution to a power law. C, Multiplicative binned log-log plots for all
the colonies studied (black dots), and only for the initial (Sastago, see
Figure 1) subpopulation (white triangles); x: Log(midpoint of each bin). Because
colonies are integers, the logarithmic midpoint was calculated as
where n is the number of the bin starting with 0, and the bins are in powers of two, i.e. 1–1, 2–3, 4–7, 8–15, 16–31 and 32–64 nests, so that the midpoint of the first three bins are 1, 2.449, 5.291; y: Log(mean number of colonies for each colony size
within each bin), i.e. the number of colonies within a bin divided by the length of the bin calculated as 2n. Lower inset values indicate
the R
2 of the fit of Sastago data to a power law. Best fits are also shown for the whole population; upper inset values indicate the difference in AIC between the power law and the truncated power law. Negative values denote a better fit of the truncated power law.
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