Taylor's law and body size in exploited marine ecosystems
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Taylor's law and body size in exploited marine ecosystems
Taylor's law (TL), which states that variance in population density is related to mean density via a power law, and density-mass allometry, which states that mean density is related to body mass via a power law, are two of the most widely observed patterns in ecology. Combining these two laws predicts that the variance in density is related to body mass via a power law (variance-mass allometry)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.418