Pueyo Salvador, Jovani Roger
Departament d'Ecologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Science. 2006 Sep 22;313(5794):1739; author reply 1739. doi: 10.1126/science.1129595.
Vandermeer and Perfecto (Reports, 17 February 2006, p. 1000) maintain that a mutualist ant disrupts the power law distribution of scale insect abundances. However, reanalysis of the data reveals that ants cause an increase in the range of the power law and modify its exponent. We present a tentative, but more realistic, model that is suitable for quantitative predictions.
范德米尔和佩尔费托（《报告》，2006年2月17日，第1000页）认为，互利共生的蚂蚁扰乱了蚧壳虫数量的幂律分布。然而，对数据的重新分析表明，蚂蚁导致幂律范围增加并改变了其指数。我们提出了一个初步但更现实的模型，适用于定量预测。
