Community composition and nested-subset analyses: Basic descriptors for community ecology

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 417-426

  Worthen, Wade B ^a  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NESTED SUBSET; SLOSS;

EID: 0030304573     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546335     Document Type: Review

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