Stochastic multiplicative population growth predicts and interprets Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling
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Stochastic multiplicative population growth predicts and interprets Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling.
Taylor's law (TL) asserts that the variance of the density (individuals per area or volume) of a set of comparable populations is a power-law function of the mean density of those populations. Despite the empirical confirmation of TL in hundreds of species, there is little consensus about why TL is so widely observed and how its estimated parameters should be interpreted. Here, we report that t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2955