%0 Journal Article %1 j50year %A J., Wade Michael %A L., Fitzpatrick Courtney %A M., Lively Curtis %D 2018 %J Journal of Animal Ecology %K ecology patchiness_metrics patchy_drift spatial_statistics %N 0 %R 10.1111/1365-2656.12854 %T 50-year anniversary of Lloyd's ``mean crowding'': Ideas on patchy distributions %U https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2656.12854 %V 0 %X Abstract This year marks the 50th anniversary of Monte B. Lloyd's “Mean Crowding” (1967) paper, in which he introduced a metric that accounts for an individual's experience of conspecific density. Mean crowding allows ecologists to measure the degree of spatial aggregation of individuals in a manner relevant to intraspecific competition for resources. We take the concept of mean crowding a step beyond its most common usage and that it has a mathematical relationship to many of the most important concepts in ecology and evolutionary biology. Mean crowding, a first-order approximation of the degree of nonrandomness in a distribution, can function as a powerful heuristic that can unify concepts across disciplines in a more general way that Lloyd originally envisioned.

@article{j50year, abstract = {Abstract This year marks the 50th anniversary of Monte B. Lloyd's “Mean Crowding” (1967) paper, in which he introduced a metric that accounts for an individual's experience of conspecific density. Mean crowding allows ecologists to measure the degree of spatial aggregation of individuals in a manner relevant to intraspecific competition for resources. We take the concept of mean crowding a step beyond its most common usage and that it has a mathematical relationship to many of the most important concepts in ecology and evolutionary biology. Mean crowding, a first-order approximation of the degree of nonrandomness in a distribution, can function as a powerful heuristic that can unify concepts across disciplines in a more general way that Lloyd originally envisioned.}, added-at = {2018-07-03T22:34:07.000+0200}, author = {J., Wade Michael and L., Fitzpatrick Courtney and M., Lively Curtis}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ac776c05ae37c29e6b40a5f83cffeaa6/peter.ralph}, doi = {10.1111/1365-2656.12854}, eprint = {https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12854}, interhash = {af251ffaf88cd69b99981594f350b7a8}, intrahash = {ac776c05ae37c29e6b40a5f83cffeaa6}, journal = {Journal of Animal Ecology}, keywords = {ecology patchiness_metrics patchy_drift spatial_statistics}, number = 0, timestamp = {2018-07-03T22:34:07.000+0200}, title = {50-year anniversary of {Lloyd}'s ``mean crowding'': Ideas on patchy distributions}, url = {https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2656.12854}, volume = 0, year = 2018 }