Comment on "A Keystone Mutualism Drives Pattern in a Power Function"
- 22 September 2006
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 313 (5794) , 1739
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1129595
Abstract
Vandermeer and Perfecto (Reports, 17 February 2006, p. 1000) maintain that a mutualist ant disrupts the power law distribution of scale insect abundances. However, reanalysis of the data reveals that ants cause an increase in the range of the power law and modify its exponent. We present a tentative, but more realistic, model that is suitable for quantitative predictions.Keywords
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