The importance of non‐linearity: A comment on the views of Taylor

Abstract

Summary Taylor's (1984) view that his power law is better measurement of the distribution pattern of animals than 1/ k, I ρ and relation because almost all the data on means and variances of given species could be fitted by the power low, was critisized. Changes in values of 1/ k, I ρ and suggest the change of distribution pattern of the species, but the data can still be fitted by the power law because of the great linearizing power of log‐log plots, and, using the power law only, we shall overlook the information on the meaningful changes in the distribution pattern.