Species rareness and commonness along spatial and temporal gradients

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 369-374

  Van Auken, O W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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