2026/02/18 by Clara Gracia, Jules Segrestin, Jan Lepš +31 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Ecosystem dynamics and resilience #Plant and animal studies
paper · doi:10.1002/ecog.08242
Despite extensive research, stabilizing mechanisms in ecosystems remain uncertain. Taylor's power law (TPL) is a pervasive ecological pattern that describes how variance scales with mean abundance (σ 2 = aμᵇ). While TPL has been widely studied within populations, its role across species within communities and its implications for stability remain largely unexplored. A TPL scaling factor (b) 2 = 0.92) with a consistent b