Finite Size Scaling in Ecology
- 15 November 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (20) , 4212-4214
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.4212
Abstract
Finite size scaling techniques are applied to ecology and are shown to predict relationships between power-law exponents as well as a connection between scaling phenomena in physics and ecology. The framework presented here ought to be useful for testing the hypothesis of scale invariance in the spatial distribution of species across a landscape.Keywords
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