摘要翻译：
泰勒幂律是20世纪发现的最广为人知的生态学经验模式之一。指出物种种群密度的方差是平均种群密度的幂律函数。泰勒幂律是以英国生态学家莱昂内尔·罗伊·泰勒的名字命名的。在过去的半个世纪里，泰勒幂律被证实了数以千计的生物物种，甚至非生物数量。许多理论和模型被提出来解释泰勒幂律的机制。然而，对这种普遍存在的缩放模式的历史起源缺乏理解。本文回顾了泰勒幂律发现的两个重要方面，并对泰勒幂律的未来研究进行了展望。
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英文标题：
《Taylor's power law: before and after 50 years of scientific scrutiny》
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作者：
Meng Xu
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最新提交年份：
2016
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分类信息：

一级分类：Quantitative Biology        数量生物学
二级分类：Other Quantitative Biology        其他定量生物学
分类描述：Work in quantitative biology that does not fit into the other q-bio classifications
不适合其他q-bio分类的定量生物学工作
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英文摘要：
  Taylor's power law is one of the mostly widely known empirical patterns in ecology discovered in the 20th century. It states that the variance of species population density scales as a power-law function of the mean population density. Taylor's power law was named after the British ecologist Lionel Roy Taylor. During the past half-century, Taylor's power law was confirmed for thousands of biological species and even for non-biological quantities. Numerous theories and models have been proposed to explain the mechanisms of Taylor's power law. However an understanding of the historical origin of this ubiquitous scaling pattern is lacking. This work reviews two research aspects that are fundamental to the discovery of Taylor's power law and provides an outlook of its future studies.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.02033