Taylor's ecological power law as a consequence of scale invariant exponential dispersion models

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 193-209

  Kendal, Wayne S ^a  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Population dynamics; Scale invariance; Scale transformations; Taylor's power law; Tweedie models

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844260966     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2004.05.001     Document Type: Review

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