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Taylors 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…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-24 Xiao Xiao , Kenneth J. Locey , Ethan P. White

Taylor's power law (TL) or fluctuation scaling has been verified empirically for the abundances of many species, human and non-human, and in many other fields including physics, meteorology, computer science, and finance. TL asserts that…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-30 Lionel Truquet , Joel E. Cohen , Paul Doukhan

First discovered by L. R. Taylor (1961, Nature), Taylor's Power Law (TPL) correlates the mean (M) population abundances and the corresponding variances (V) across a set of insect populations using a power function (V=aM^b). TPL has…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-25 Zhanshan Sam Ma , R. A. J. Taylor

Taylor's law (TL) states that the variance $V$ of a non-negative random variable is a power function of its mean $M$, i.e. $V=a M^b$. The ubiquitous empirical verification of TL, typically displaying sample exponents $b \simeq 2$, suggests…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 Andrea Giometto , Marco Formentin , Andrea Rinaldo , Joel E. Cohen , Amos Maritan

Taylor's power law is one of the mostly widely known empirical patterns in ecology discovered in the 20th century. It states that the variance of species population density scales as a power-law function of the mean population density.…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-19 Meng Xu

Taylor's law, also known as fluctuation scaling in physics and the power-law variance function in statistics, is an empirical pattern widely observed across fields including ecology, physics, finance, and epidemiology. It states that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Pok Him Cheng , Joel E. Cohen , Hok Kan Ling , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Taylor's law describes the fluctuation characteristics underlying a system in which the variance of an event within a time span grows by a power law with respect to the mean. Although Taylor's law has been applied in many natural and social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Tatsuru Kobayashi , Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Scaling laws in ecology, intended both as functional relationships among ecologically-relevant quantities and the probability distributions that characterize their occurrence, have long attracted the interest of empiricists and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-19 Silvia Zaoli , Andrea Giometto , Amos Maritan , Andrea Rinaldo

Taylor's power law (or fluctuation scaling) states that on comparable populations, the variance of each sample is approximately proportional to a power of the mean of the population. It has been shown to hold by empirical observations in a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Victor De la Pena , Paul Doukhan , Yahia Salhi

In a family of random variables, Taylor's law or Taylor's power law offluctuation scaling is a variance function that gives the variance $\sigma^{2}>0$ of a random variable (rv) $X$ with expectation $\mu >0$ as a powerof $\mu$: $\sigma…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Joel E. Cohen , Thierry E Huillet

Taylor's law (TL), a power-law relationship between the mean and variance of a quantity, has been observed across diverse scientific disciplines. Despite its ubiquity, the underlying mechanisms responsible for TL are not yet fully…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-14 Yuzuru Mitsui , Hiroshi Kori

Many natural patterns, such as the distributions of blood particles in a blood sample, proteins on cell surfaces, biological populations in their habitat, galaxies in the universe, the sequence of human genes, and the fitness in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Zhanshan Sam Ma

Complex systems consist of many interacting elements which participate in some dynamical process. The activity of various elements is often different and the fluctuation in the activity of an element grows monotonically with the average…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-24 Zoltan Eisler , Imre Bartos , Janos Kertesz

Time evolution of number of species (genera, families, and others), population of them, and size distribution of present ones and life times are studied in terms of a new model, where population of each genetic taxon increases by a (random)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Caglar Tuncay

Interpretation of empirical results based on a taxa's lifetime distribution shows apparently conflicting results. Species' lifetime is reported to be exponentially distributed, whereas higher order taxa, such as families or genera, follow a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 S. Pigolotti , A. Flammini , M. Marsili , A. Maritan

Taylor's law quantifies the scaling properties of the fluctuations of the number of innovations occurring in open systems. Urn based modelling schemes have already proven to be effective in modelling this complex behaviour. Here, we present…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-07 F. Tria , I. Crimaldi , G. Aletti , V. D. P. Servedio

A mathematical model of interacting species filling ecological niches left by the extinction of others is introduced. Species organize themselves into genera of all sizes. The size of a genus on average grows linearly with its age,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Susanna Manrubia , Maya Paczuski

Evolutionary game dynamics is one of the most fruitful frameworks for studying evolution in different disciplines, from Biology to Economics. Within this context, the approach of choice for many researchers is the so-called replicator…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-14 Carlos P. Roca , José A. Cuesta , Angel Sánchez

Taylor's law is the footprint of ecosystems, which admits a power function relationship $S^{2}=am^{b}$ between the variance $S^{2}$ and mean number $m$ of organisms in an area. We examine the distribution of spatial coordinate data of seven…

Applications · Statistics 2014-07-22 Liang Wu , Xuezhen Chen , Chunyan Zhao

Taylor's power law states that the variance function decays as a power law. It is observed for population densities of species in ecology. For random networks another power law, that is, the power law degree distribution is widely studied.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-10 István Fazekas , Csaba Noszály , Noémi Uzonyi
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