Parasitism alters three power laws of scaling in a metazoan community: Taylor’s law, density-mass al...
Parasitism alters three power laws of scaling in a metazoan community: Taylor’s law, density-mass allometry, and variance-mass allometry
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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Significance Power laws of scaling are major achievements of ecology. Such empirical laws say that one quantity varies as some power of another quantity. For example, Taylor’s law says that the variance of population density changes as a power of the mean population density. Density-mass allometry says that the mean population density is a power-la...
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Parasitism alters three power laws of scaling in a metazoan community: Taylor’s law, density-mass allometry, and variance-mass allometry
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1673395755
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1422475112
