Biological and statistical processes jointly drive population aggregation: using host–parasite interactions to understand Taylor's power law

Whether larval amphibians school does not affect the parasite aggregation rule: testing the effects of host spatial heterogeneity in field and experimental studies

(2017) Janet Koprivnikar et al.   OIKOS

Habitat heterogeneity drives the host-diversity-begets-parasite-diversity relationship: evidence from experimental and field studies

(2016) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

(2016) Patrick R. Stephens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host Competence: An Organismal Trait to Integrate Immunology and Epidemiology

(2016) Lynn B. Martin et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Detecting and quantifying parasite-induced host mortality from intensity data: method comparisons and limitations

(2016) Mark Q. Wilber et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Does moving up a food chain increase aggregation in parasites?

(2016) R. J. G. Lester et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Taylor's law and related allometric power laws in New Zealand mountain beech forests: the roles of space, time and environment

(2016) Joel E. Cohen et al.   OIKOS

Linking parasite populations in hosts to parasite populations in space through Taylor's law and the negative binomial distribution

(2016) Joel E. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape functions?

(2016) Matthew J. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tornado outbreak variability follows Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling and increases dramatically with severity

(2016) Michael K. Tippett et al.   Nature Communications

A Process-Independent Explanation for the General Form of Taylor’s Law

(2015) Xiao Xiao et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Random sampling of skewed distributions implies Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling

(2015) Joel E. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sample and population exponents of generalized Taylor’s law

(2015) Andrea Giometto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Robustness of Taylor’s law under spatial hierarchical groupings of forest tree samples

(2014) Meng Xu et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Parasitism alters three power laws of scaling in a metazoan community: Taylor’s law, density-mass allometry, and variance-mass allometry

(2014) Clément Lagrue et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance

(2013) Kenneth J. Locey et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Explaining variability in parasite aggregation levels among host samples

(2013) ROBERT POULIN   PARASITOLOGY

Taylor's law and abrupt biotic change in a smoothly changing environment

(2013) Joel E. Cohen   Theoretical Ecology

Quantifying the biomass of parasites to understand their role in aquatic communities

(2013) Jason Lambden et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Overdispersion In Marine Fish Parasites

(2012) R. J. G. Lester   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness

(2012) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Taylor's Law holds in experimental bacterial populations but competition does not influence the slope

(2011) J. Ramsayer et al.   Biology Letters

The dynamics of macroparasite host-self-infection: a study of the patterns and processes of pinworm (Oxyuridae) aggregation

(2011) DANIEL A. GREAR et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Developmental variation in resistance and tolerance in a multi-host-parasite system

(2010) Jason R. Rohr et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Does the early frog catch the worm? Disentangling potential drivers of a parasite age–intensity relationship in tadpoles

(2010) Thomas R. Raffel et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fluctuation scaling in complex systems: Taylor's law and beyond1

(2008) Zoltán Eisler et al.   ADVANCES IN PHYSICS

Why apply ecological laws to epidemiology?

(2008) Serge Morand et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY