The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: II. Temporal dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-55

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Greenwood, Jeremy J D ^c   Gregory, Richard D ^c  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Birds; Community structure; Geographical range size; Macroecology; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 0002700740     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00005.x     Document Type: Article

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