Spatial heterogeneity analysis of the human virome with Taylor’s power law [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021 Spatial heterogeneity is a fundamental characteristic of organisms from viruses to humans. Measuring heterogeneity is challenging, especially for naked-eye invisible viruses, but of obvious importance.
Zhanshan (Sam) Ma
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Taylor’s power law and its decomposition in urban facilities [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 As one of the few generalities in ecology, Taylor’s power law admits a power function relationship V = aMb between the variance V and mean number M of organisms in a quadrat.
Liang Wu, Chi Gong, Xin Yan
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Estimating the Optimum Coverage and Quality of Amplicon Sequencing With Taylor’s Power Law Extensions [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Theoretical analysis of DNA sequencing coverage problem has been investigated with complex mathematical models such as Lander–Waterman expectation theory and Stevens’ theorem for randomly covering a domain.
Zhanshan (Sam) Ma, Zhanshan (Sam) Ma
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Random sampling of skewed distributions implies Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Significance One of the most widely confirmed empirical patterns in ecology is Taylor’s law (TL): The variance of population density is approximately a power-law function of the mean population density.
Cohen JE, Xu M.
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Nature Communications, 2016 Tornadoes, which cause loss of life and damage to property worldwide, may occur in outbreaks of six or more in rapid succession. Here, the authors show that the annual mean number of tornadoes per US outbreak rose over the last 60 years, with the ...
Michael K. Tippett, Joel E. Cohen
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Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsClimate extremes are causing increasingly large pulses of forest disturbance across biomes, raising concerns that forests are pushed beyond their safe operating space.
Cornelius Senf +3 more
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Anthelmintic Treatment and the Stability of Parasite Distribution in Ruminants [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Parasites are generally overdispersed among their hosts, with far-reaching implications for their population dynamics and control. The factors determining parasite overdispersion have long been debated.
Eric R. Morgan +4 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 The mean and variance of ecological measures usually follow a power-law relationship, referred to as Taylor's power law (TPL). Leaves are important organs for photosynthesis, and leaf size is closely related to photosynthetic potential.
Peijian Shi +8 more
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Study on the aggregation patterns of fleas parasitizing the great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) in the Junggar Basin plague natural focus [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus), whose ectoparasitic fleas significantly influence the transmission and prevalence of plague, was the dominant rodent species in the Junggar Basin in Northwestern China.
Fang Li +11 more
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Canopy-Mediated Shifts in Grassland Diversity and Heterogeneity: A Power Law Approach from China’s Loess Plateau [PDF]
PlantsThis study investigates the spatial heterogeneity and species diversity of grassland vegetation in the agro-pastoral ecotone of China’s Loess Plateau, integrating Taylor’s power law model with the minimum area concept to address scale-dependent ...
Lili Qian +7 more
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