On species-area relations

American Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 719-737

  He, Fangliang ^a,b   Legendre, Pierre ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA CURVE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0030389962     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285950     Document Type: Review

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