The upper limit for the exponent of Taylor's power law is a consequence of deterministic population growth

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1213-1220

  Ballantyne IV, Ford ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Deterministic dynamics; Population growth; Scaling; Stochasticity; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044439127     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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