Monday Lectures
Monday October 31, 2016 3:45 p.m.
Caspary Auditorium
Joel E. Cohen Ph.D.
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations
The Rockefeller University
and
Departments of International and Public Affairs;
Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; and Statistics of Columbia University
The Variation is the Theme:
Taylor’s law from Chagas Disease Vector Control to Tornado Outbreaks
Recommended Readings:
Taylor, L. R. Aggregation, variance and the mean. Nature. 178:732-735 1961
Anderson, Sean C.; Cooper, Andrew B.; Dulvy, Nicholas K. Ecological prophets: quantifying metapopulation portfolio effects. METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 4(10): 971-981 OCT 2013
Meng, Xu. Taylor’s power law: Before and after 50 years of scientific scrutiny. ArXiv. arxiv.org/pdf/1505.02033 2011
Taylor, L. R. and I. P. Woiwod Temporal Stability as a Density-Dependent Species Characteristic. Journal of Animal Ecology. 49(1): 209-224 February 1980
Kalyuzhny, Michael; Schreiber, Yishai; Chocron, Rachel; et al. Temporal fluctuation scaling in populations and communities. ECOLOGY. 95(6):1701-1709 JUN 2014
