Estimating competition coefficients from census data: A re-examination of the regression technique

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 291-300

  Fox, Barry J ^a   Luo, Jia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; COMPETITION COEFFICIENT; REGRESSION; RODENT;

EID: 0030430902     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546068     Document Type: Article

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