Linearity and scaling of a statistical model for the species abundance distribution
Abstract
We derive a linear recursion relation for the species abundance distribution in a statistical model of ecology and demonstrate the existence of a scaling solution.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- March 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.032901
- Bibcode:
- 2002PhRvE..65c2901M
- Keywords:
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- 87.23.Cc;
- 89.75.Da;
- Population dynamics and ecological pattern formation;
- Systems obeying scaling laws