Are there clumps in body-size distributions?

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-86

  Manly, Bryan F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal body size; Bootstrap test of significance; Community structure; Computer intensive methods; Kernel density estimation; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

BODY SIZE; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; SMOOTHED BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLING; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE;

EID: 0030422755     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265657     Document Type: Article

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