Co-occurrence of australian land birds: Diamond's assembly rules revisited

Oikos

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-324

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Buckley, Neil J ^a   Wiens, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; DIAMOND'S ASSEMBLY RULE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; CINCLOSOMA; CLIMACTERIS; CORVUS; GALLIFORMES; LONCHURA; MALURUS; MANORINA; MYZOMELA; PACHYCEPHALA; PSOPHODES; PTILONOPUS; ZOSTEROPS;

EID: 0030766179     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546599     Document Type: Review

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