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Ascensao JA, Lok K, Hallatschek O. Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.02.23.581776. [PMID: 38562700 PMCID: PMC10983864 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.23.581776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Large stochastic population abundance fluctuations are ubiquitous across the tree of life1-7, impacting the predictability of population dynamics and influencing eco-evolutionary outcomes. It has generally been thought that these large abundance fluctuations do not strongly impact evolution (in contrast to genetic drift), as the relative frequencies of alleles in the population will be unaffected if the abundance of all alleles fluctuate in unison. However, we argue that large abundance fluctuations can lead to significant genotype frequency fluctuations if different genotypes within a population experience these fluctuations asynchronously. By serially diluting mixtures of two closely related E. coli strains, we show that such asynchrony can occur, leading to giant frequency fluctuations that far exceed expectations from models of genetic drift. We develop a flexible, effective model that explains the abundance fluctuations as arising from correlated offspring numbers between individuals, and the large frequency fluctuations result from even slight decoupling in offspring numbers between genotypes. This model accurately describes the observed abundance and frequency fluctuation scaling behaviors. Our findings suggest chaotic dynamics underpin these giant fluctuations, causing initially similar trajectories to diverge exponentially; subtle environmental changes can be magnified, leading to batch correlations in identical growth conditions. Furthermore, we present evidence that such decoupling noise is also present in mixed-genotype S. cerevisiae populations. We demonstrate that such decoupling noise can strongly influence evolutionary outcomes, in a manner distinct from genetic drift. Given the generic nature of asynchronous fluctuations, we anticipate they are widespread in biological populations, significantly affecting evolutionary and ecological dynamics.
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- Joao A Ascensao
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Present affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Kojima H, Mitsui Y, Ikegami T. Spatial and temporal Taylor's law in 1D chaotic maps. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2021; 31:033111. [PMID: 33810725 DOI: 10.1063/5.0036892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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By using low-dimensional chaotic maps, the power-law relationship established between the sample mean and variance called Taylor's Law (TL) is studied. In particular, we aim to clarify the relationship between TL from the spatial ensemble (STL) and the temporal ensemble (TTL). Since the spatial ensemble corresponds to independent sampling from a stationary distribution, we confirm that STL is explained by the skewness of the distribution. The difference between TTL and STL is shown to be originated in the temporal correlation of a dynamics. In case of logistic and tent maps, the quadratic relationship in the sample mean and variance, called Bartlett's law, is found analytically. On the other hand, TTL in the Hassell model can be well explained by the chunk structure of the trajectory, whereas the TTL of the Ricker model has a different mechanism originated from the specific form of the map.
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- Hiroki Kojima
- The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Cobain MRD, Brede M, Trueman CN. Taylor's power law captures the effects of environmental variability on community structure: An example from fishes in the North Sea. J Anim Ecol 2018; 88:290-301. [PMID: 30426504 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 10/20/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Taylor's power law (TPL) describes the relationship between the mean and variance in abundance of populations, with the power law exponent considered a measure of aggregation. However, the usefulness of TPL exponents as an ecological metric has been questioned, largely due to its apparent ubiquity in various complex systems. The aim of this study was to test whether TPL exponents vary systematically with potential drivers of animal aggregation in time and space and therefore capture useful ecological information of the system of interest. We derived community TPL exponents from a long-term, standardised and spatially dense data series of abundance and body size data for a strongly size-structured fish community in the North Sea. We then compared TPL exponents between regions of contrasting environmental characteristics. We find that, in general, TPL exponents vary more than expected under random conditions in the North Sea for size-based populations compared to communities considered by species. Further, size-based temporal TPL exponents are systematically higher (implying more temporally aggregated distributions) along hydrographic boundaries. Time series of size-based spatial TPL exponents also differ between hydrographically distinct basins. These findings support the notion that TPL exponents contain ecological information, capturing community spatio-temporal dynamics as influenced by external drivers.
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- Matthew R D Cobain
- Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, NOCS, Southampton, UK
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- Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, NOCS, Southampton, UK
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Madden LV, Hughes G, Moraes WB, Xu XM, Turechek WW. Twenty-Five Years of the Binary Power Law for Characterizing Heterogeneity of Disease Incidence. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2018; 108:656-680. [PMID: 29148964 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-17-0234-rvw] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Spatial pattern, an important epidemiological property of plant diseases, can be quantified at different scales using a range of methods. The spatial heterogeneity (or overdispersion) of disease incidence among sampling units is an especially important measure of small-scale pattern. As an alternative to Taylor's power law for the heterogeneity of counts with no upper bound, the binary power law (BPL) was proposed in 1992 as a model to represent the heterogeneity of disease incidence (number of plant units diseased out of n observed in each sampling unit, or the proportion diseased in each sampling unit). With the BPL, the log of the observed variance is a linear function of the log of the variance for a binomial (i.e., random) distribution. Over the last quarter century, the BPL has contributed to both theory and multiple applications in the study of heterogeneity of disease incidence. In this article, we discuss properties of the BPL and use it to develop a general conceptualization of the dynamics of spatial heterogeneity in epidemics; review the use of the BPL in empirical and theoretical studies; present a synthesis of parameter estimates from over 200 published BPL analyses from a wide range of diseases and crops; discuss model fitting methods, and applications in sampling, data analysis, and prediction; and make recommendations on reporting results to improve interpretation. In a review of the literature, the BPL provided a very good fit to heterogeneity data in most publications. Eighty percent of estimated slope (b) values from field studies were between 1.06 and 1.51, with b positively correlated with the BPL intercept parameter. Stochastic simulations show that the BPL is generally consistent with spatiotemporal epidemiological processes and holds whenever there is a positive correlation of disease status of individuals composing sampling units.
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- L V Madden
- First and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster 44691; second author: Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; fourth author: NIAB, East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ, UK; and fifth author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, 2001 South Rock Road, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945
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- First and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster 44691; second author: Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; fourth author: NIAB, East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ, UK; and fifth author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, 2001 South Rock Road, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945
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- First and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster 44691; second author: Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; fourth author: NIAB, East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ, UK; and fifth author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, 2001 South Rock Road, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945
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- First and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster 44691; second author: Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; fourth author: NIAB, East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ, UK; and fifth author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, 2001 South Rock Road, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945
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- First and third authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster 44691; second author: Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK; fourth author: NIAB, East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ, UK; and fifth author: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, 2001 South Rock Road, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945
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Shi PJ, Sandhu HS, Reddy GV. Dispersal distance determines the exponent of the spatial Taylor’s power law. Ecol Modell 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Xiao X, Locey KJ, White EP. A Process-Independent Explanation for the General Form of Taylor's Law. Am Nat 2015; 186:E51-60. [PMID: 26655161 DOI: 10.1086/682050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Taylor's law (TL) describes the scaling relationship between the mean and variance of populations as a power law. TL is widely observed in ecological systems across space and time, with exponents varying largely between 1 and 2. Many ecological explanations have been proposed for TL, but it is also commonly observed outside ecology. We propose that TL arises from the constraining influence of two primary variables: the number of individuals and the number of censuses or sites. We show that most possible configurations of individuals among censuses or sites produce the power-law form of TL, with exponents between 1 and 2. This "feasible set" approach suggests that TL is a statistical pattern driven by two constraints, providing an a priori explanation for this ubiquitous pattern. However, the exact form of any specific mean-variance relationship cannot be predicted in this way, that is, this approach does a poor job of predicting variation in the exponent, suggesting that TL may still contain ecological information.
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- Xiao Xiao
- Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5305 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322
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Mean and variance of population density and temporal Taylor’s law in stochastic stage-structured density-dependent models of exploited fish populations. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12080-014-0242-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Anderson SC, Cooper AB, Dulvy NK. Ecological prophets: quantifying metapopulation portfolio effects. Methods Ecol Evol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Sean C. Anderson
- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences; Simon Fraser University; Burnaby; BC; V5A 1S6; Canada
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- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University; Burnaby; BC; V5A 1S6; Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences; Simon Fraser University; Burnaby; BC; V5A 1S6; Canada
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Fukaya K, Okuda T, Hori M, Yamamoto T, Nakaoka M, Noda T. Variable processes that determine population growth and an invariant mean-variance relationship of intertidal barnacles. Ecosphere 2013. [DOI: 10.1890/es12-00272.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Kendal WS, Jørgensen B. Tweedie convergence: a mathematical basis for Taylor's power law, 1/f noise, and multifractality. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:066120. [PMID: 22304168 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.066120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Revised: 11/18/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Plants and animals of a given species tend to cluster within their habitats in accordance with a power function between their mean density and the variance. This relationship, Taylor's power law, has been variously explained by ecologists in terms of animal behavior, interspecies interactions, demographic effects, etc., all without consensus. Taylor's law also manifests within a wide range of other biological and physical processes, sometimes being referred to as fluctuation scaling and attributed to effects of the second law of thermodynamics. 1/f noise refers to power spectra that have an approximately inverse dependence on frequency. Like Taylor's law these spectra manifest from a wide range of biological and physical processes, without general agreement as to cause. One contemporary paradigm for 1/f noise has been based on the physics of self-organized criticality. We show here that Taylor's law (when derived from sequential data using the method of expanding bins) implies 1/f noise, and that both phenomena can be explained by a central limit-like effect that establishes the class of Tweedie exponential dispersion models as foci for this convergence. These Tweedie models are probabilistic models characterized by closure under additive and reproductive convolution as well as under scale transformation, and consequently manifest a variance to mean power function. We provide examples of Taylor's law, 1/f noise, and multifractality within the eigenvalue deviations of the Gaussian unitary and orthogonal ensembles, and show that these deviations conform to the Tweedie compound Poisson distribution. The Tweedie convergence theorem provides a unified mathematical explanation for the origin of Taylor's law and 1/f noise applicable to a wide range of biological, physical, and mathematical processes, as well as to multifractality.
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- Wayne S Kendal
- Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Ottawa, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L6.
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Kendal WS, Jørgensen B. Taylor's power law and fluctuation scaling explained by a central-limit-like convergence. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 83:066115. [PMID: 21797449 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.066115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2010] [Revised: 05/03/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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A power function relationship observed between the variance and the mean of many types of biological and physical systems has generated much debate as to its origins. This Taylor's law (or fluctuation scaling) has been recently hypothesized to result from the second law of thermodynamics and the behavior of the density of states. This hypothesis is predicated on physical quantities like free energy and an external field; the correspondence of these quantities with biological systems, though, remains unproven. Questions can be posed as to the applicability of this hypothesis to the diversity of observed phenomena as well as the range of spatial and temporal scales observed with Taylor's law. We note that the cumulant generating functions derived from this thermodynamic model correspond to those derived over a quarter century earlier for a class of probabilistic models known as the Tweedie exponential dispersion models. These latter models are characterized by variance-to-mean power functions; their phenomenological basis rests with a central-limit-theorem-like property that causes many statistical systems to converge mathematically toward a Tweedie form. We review evaluations of the Tweedie Poisson-gamma model for Taylor's law and provide three further cases to test: the clustering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the horse chromosome 1, the clustering of genes within human chromosome 8, and the Mertens function. This latter case is a number theoretic function for which a thermodynamic model cannot explain Taylor's law, but where Tweedie convergence remains applicable. The Tweedie models are applicable to diverse biological, physical, and mathematical phenomena that express power variance functions over a wide range of measurement scales; they provide a probabilistic description for Taylor's law that allows mechanistic insight into complex systems without the assumption of a thermodynamic mechanism.
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- Wayne S Kendal
- Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Ottawa, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L6.
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Fronczak A, Fronczak P. Origins of Taylor's power law for fluctuation scaling in complex systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:066112. [PMID: 20866483 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.066112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2009] [Revised: 05/13/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Taylor's fluctuation scaling (FS) has been observed in many natural and man-made systems revealing an amazing universality of the law. Here, we give a reliable explanation for the origins and abundance of Taylor's FS in different complex systems. The universality of our approach is validated against real world data ranging from bird and insect populations through human chromosomes and traffic intensity in transportation networks to stock market dynamics. Using fundamental principles of statistical physics (both equilibrium and nonequilibrium) we prove that Taylor's law results from the well-defined number of states of a system characterized by the same value of a macroscopic parameter (i.e., the number of birds observed in a given area, traffic intensity measured as a number of cars passing trough a given observation point or daily activity in the stock market measured in millions of dollars).
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- Agata Fronczak
- Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland.
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Benton TG, Beckerman AP. Population Dynamics in a Noisy World: Lessons From a Mite Experimental System. ADV ECOL RES 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2504(04)37005-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Kendal WS. Taylor’s ecological power law as a consequence of scale invariant exponential dispersion models. ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2004.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Kilpatrick AM, Ives AR. Species interactions can explain Taylor's power law for ecological time series. Nature 2003; 422:65-8. [PMID: 12621433 DOI: 10.1038/nature01471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2002] [Accepted: 01/28/2003] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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One of the few generalities in ecology, Taylor's power law, describes the species-specific relationship between the temporal or spatial variance of populations and their mean abundances. For populations experiencing constant per capita environmental variability, the regression of log variance versus log mean abundance gives a line with a slope of 2. Despite this expectation, most species have slopes of less than 2 (refs 2, 3-4), indicating that more abundant populations of a species are relatively less variable than expected on the basis of simple statistical grounds. What causes abundant populations to be less variable has received considerable attention, but an explanation for the generality of this pattern is still lacking. Here we suggest a novel explanation for the scaling of temporal variability in population abundances. Using stochastic simulation and analytical models, we demonstrate how negative interactions among species in a community can produce slopes of Taylor's power law of less than 2, like those observed in real data sets. This result provides an example in which the population dynamics of single species can be understood only in the context of interactions within an ecological community.
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- A M Kilpatrick
- Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
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A power-law relationship between the mean and variance of ecological time series has been shown to hold for a vast number of species. Here we examine the behaviour of single-species stochastic models and concentrate in particular on the mean-variance relationship as the carrying capacity becomes large. Single-species stochastic models can be written as Markov chains, and the long-term distribution of population sizes and hence power-law scaling can be found analytically. The various power-law scalings that arise have very different biological implications for the effects of stochasticity and the departure from the deterministic paradigm. Finally we extend our analysis to consider the complicating factors of spatial heterogeneity, nontrivial deterministic dynamics, and multispecies models.
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- M J Keeling
- Zoology Department, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.
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