Relative abundance and evenness patterns along diversity and biomass gradients

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 355-361

  Weiher, Evan ^a,b   Keddy, Paul A ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EID: 0032740691     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546751     Document Type: Article

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