| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4498342 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A theoretical analysis of the “portfolio effect” expressed in metabolic terms indicates that the coefficient of variation of total biomass in the ecosystem is influenced by three factors: metabolic diversity, total population size and organism biomass (body mass). The contribution of these factors to ecosystem stability depends on the power scaling of population size to its temporal variance: the Tilman's z. In natural populations, 1
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Authors
Julián Simón López-Villalta,