Spatial and temporal autocorrelations affect Taylor's law for US county populations: Descriptive and predictive models.

Understanding the spatial and temporal distributions and fluctuations of living populations is a central goal in ecology and demography. A scaling pattern called Taylor's law has been used to quantify the distributions of populations. Taylor's law asserts a linear relationship between the...

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Main Authors: Meng Xu, Joel E Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245062