How organisms partition habitats: Different types of community organization can produce identical patterns

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 246-258

  Wisheu, Irene C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0031743151     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546836     Document Type: Article

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