Scaling in the growth of geographically subdivided populations: Invariant patterns from a continent-wide biological survey

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1421, 2002, Pages 627-633

  Keitt, Timothy H ^a   Amaral, Luis A N ^a   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^a   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Invariant scaling; North American breeding bird survey; Population ecology; Population variability; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SURVEY;

ANIMAL; BIRDS; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037193547     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.1013     Document Type: Article

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