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SUBMITTER: Cohen JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3465447 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cohen Joel E JE Xu Meng M Schuster William S F WS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120910 39
Two widely tested empirical patterns in ecology are combined here to predict how the variation of population density relates to the average body size of organisms. Taylor's law (TL) asserts that the variance of the population density of a set of populations is a power-law function of the mean population density. Density-mass allometry (DMA) asserts that the mean population density of a set of populations is a power-law function of the mean individual body mass. Combined, DMA and TL predict that ...[more]