Species-range size distributions in Britain

Ecography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-370

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Quinn, Rachel M ^b   Blackburn, Tim M ^b   Eversham, Brian C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); AVES; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; MOLLUSCA; PAPILIONOIDEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0031818884     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1998.tb00401.x     Document Type: Article

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