Interspecific differences in intraspecific abundance-range size relationships of British breeding birds

Ecography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-158

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Blackburn, Tim M ^b   Gregory, Richard D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING BIRD; GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE SIZE;

UK;

EID: 0031961651     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1998.tb00669.x     Document Type: Article

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