
Taylor's Power Law
Order and Pattern in Nature
Description
Key Features
- Provides a single reference describing the properties, scope, and limitations of Taylor’s power law
- Reports the empirical, analytical, and theoretical work without opinion and ends with a critique of the work in order to develop a synthesis
- Collects together thoughts and suggestions of the hundreds who have written and speculated about Taylor’s power law in order to review examples (and counter-examples), as well as examine the various models developed to account for it
Readership
Biologists, ecologists, entomologists, agriculture scientists, plant pathologists, field biologists, forestry managers, fisheries managers, applied statisticians, geographers, researchers in demographics, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists and other physical scientists, graduate/advanced UG students in biological sciences
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I
2. Spatial pattern
3. Measuring aggregation
4. Fitting TPL
Part II
5. Microorganisms
6. Plants
7. Nematodes and other worms
8. Insects and other arthropods
9. Other invertebrates
10. Vertebrates
11. Other biological examples
12. Nonbiological examples
13. Counter examples
Part III
14. Applications of TPL
15. Properties of TPL
16. Allometry and other power laws
17. Modeling TPL
18. Summary and synthesis
19. Epilogue
Product details
- No. of pages: 657
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 20, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128109885
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128109878