Patterns of nestedness and species association in a pond-dwelling amphibian fauna

Oikos

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 371-381

  Hecnar, Stephen J ^a   M'Closkey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITY; NESTEDNESS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES ASSOCIATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 0030880206     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546605     Document Type: Article

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