Properties of species in the tail of rank-abundance curves: The potential for increase in abundance

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 583-592

  Murray, Brad R ^a,b   Westoby, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Everywhere sparse; Geographical range; Macroecology; Neighbourhood structure; Rank abundance curve; Seed output; Somewhere abundant

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001570426     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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