Bacterial microcosms obey Taylor's law: Effects of abiotic and biotic stress and genetics on mean and variance of population density

Ecological Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Kaltz, Oliver ^a   Escobar Páramo, Patricia ^a,b   Hochberg, Michael E ^a   Cohen, Joel E ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

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

Author keywords

bacteriophage; genetics; Pseudomonas fluorescens; rifampicin; Taylor's law

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOSOMES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EMPIRICAL REGULARITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY FACTORS; GENETICS; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RIFAMPICIN; TAYLOR'S LAW;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS;

BACTERIOPHAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 84984787499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-1-5     Document Type: Article

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