Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling and the growth-rate theorem

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 94-100

  Cohen, Joel E ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential growth; Lewontin Cohen model; Population density; Population growth rate; Variance

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DENSITY; POWER LAW; SUBPOPULATION;

THALLIUM;

ARTICLE; GR; GROWTH; GROWTH-RATE THEOREM; HUMAN; LEWONTIN-COHEN MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION GROWTH RATE; TAYLOR'S LAW; THEORETICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; GR; GROWTH-RATE THEOREM; LEWONTIN-COHEN MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH RATE; TAYLOR'S LAW; TL; VARIANCE;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 84883597403     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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