Species abundance patterns: The problem of testing stochastic models

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 769-774

  Bersier, Louis Félix ^a,b   Sugihara, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute of Zoology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community structure; Goodness of fit test; Monte Carlo methods; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE PATTERN; MODEL TESTING; MONTE CARLO TEST; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0030763202     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/5927     Document Type: Review

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