Taylor's Law holds in experimental bacterial populations but competition does not influence the slope

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 316-319

  Ramsayer, Johan ^a   Fellous, Simon ^a   Cohen, Joel E ^b   Hochberg, Michael E ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Rockefeller and Columbia Universities ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Competition; Populations; Pseudomonas fluorescens; Serratia marcescens; Taylor's Law

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LINEARITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; POWER LAW; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84860342523     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0895     Document Type: Article

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