Synchrony affects Taylor's law in theory and data.

ABSTRACT: Taylor's law (TL) is a widely observed empirical pattern that relates the variances to the means of groups of nonnegative measurements via an approximate power law: variance _g ≈ a [Formula: see text] mean _g^b , where g indexes the group of measurements. When each group of measurements is distributed in space, the exponent b of this power law is conjectured to reflect aggregation in the spatial distribution. TL has had practical application in many areas since its initial demonstrations for the population density of spatially distributed species in population ecology. Another widely observed aspect of populations is spatial synchrony, which is the tendency for time series of population densities measured in different

SUBMITTER: Reuman DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5495260 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature