Lan, Boon Leong; Chandran, Paurnami - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 7, pp. 1289-1294
We show that the fluctuations of a variety of animal (insect, mammal and fish) populations are well-modeled by stable (Lévy) distributions, a family of distributions which includes the Gaussian. Our findings together with the finding [A.P. Allen, B.-L. Li, E.L. Charnov, Ecol. Lett. 4 (2001)...