Population fluctuations, power laws and mixtures of lognormal distributions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-3

  Allen, A P ^a   Li, B L ^a   Charnov, E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird population dynamics; Power laws; Self organised criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035121454     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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