This is exactly how they determine species distributions in ecology as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spe

This is exactly how they determine species distributions in ecology as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution Uniform dispersion would suggest some territoriality aspect of the species, and clumped dispersion would suggest a heterogeneity of resources (or any other hypothesis that could then be tested).