Predictions of Taylor's power law, density dependence and pink noise from a neutrally modeled time series

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-86

  Keil, Petr ^a   Herben, Tomáš ^a,b   Rosindell, James ^c   Storch, David ^a,d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Mean variance scaling; Neutral theory of biodiversity; Spectral analysis; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORRELATION; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

APHID; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIGRATION; MOTH; NATURAL POPULATION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953682737     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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