Species lifetime distribution for simple models of ecologies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 44, 2005, Pages 15747-15751

  Pigolotti, Simone ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^b   Marsili, Matteo ^c   Maritan, Amos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birth and death equations; Branching processes; Fossils analysis; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LIFESPAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY;

ANIMALS; BIRTH RATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 27644582833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0502648102     Document Type: Article

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