Power laws without complexity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-363

  Solow, Andrew R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy tailed distribution; Power law; Self organized criticality; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; POWER LAW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17444398255     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00738.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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