A spatially explicit model previously developed to apply to a population of arboreal nesting ants in southern Mexico is explored in detail, including notions of criticality and robust criticality and expected power law adjustment.
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@article{arxiv.1512.08660,
title = {Spatial pattern and power function deviation in a cellular automata model of an ant population},
author = {John Vandermeer and Doug Jackson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08660},
year = {2015}
}