Testing macroecology models with stream-fish assemblages

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 847-858

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Taylor, Christopher M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Body size; Colonization; Extinction; Freshwater fishes; Geographic range; Macroecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000255806     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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