Temporal fluctuation scaling in populations and communities

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1701-1709

  Kalyuzhny, Michael ^a   Schreiber, Yishai ^b   Chocron, Rachel ^a   Flather, Curtis H ^c   Kadmon, Ronen ^a   Kessler, David A ^b   Shnerb, Nadav M ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Demographic noise; Environmental stochasticity; Population abundance variance; Sampling error; Taylor's law; Temporal variance; Trees; Variance mean relations

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; NOISE; POWER LAW; SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903550395     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0326.1     Document Type: Article

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