Do intrinsically dominant and subordinate species exist? A test statistic for field data

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-20

  Olff, Han ^a   Bakker, Jan P ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global dominant; Local dominant; Presence dominance relationship; Regression model; Salt marsh; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002062822     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1479081     Document Type: Article

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