Scaling in ecosystems and the linkage of macroecological laws

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Damuth, John ^b   Maritan, Amos ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MACROECOLOGICAL LAWS; MATHEMATICAL ARGUMENTS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 33846986317     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.068104     Document Type: Article

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