The humped relationship between species richness and biomass - Testing its sensitivity to sample quadrat size

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-100

  Rapson, G L ^a,b   Thompson, K ^a   Hodgson, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0031000984     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2960632     Document Type: Review

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