Species interactions can explain Taylor's power law for ecological time series

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6927, 2003, Pages 65-68

  Kilpatrick, A M ^a   Ives, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; SIMULATION;

SPATIAL VARIANCE;

BIODIVERSITY;

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POWER LAW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0037422075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01471     Document Type: Article

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