Abundance, diversity and body size: Patterns from a grassland arthropod community

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 824-835

  Siemann, Evan ^a,b   Tilman, David ^a   Haarstad, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance distributions; Allometry; Conservation; Insects; Minimum viable population sizes

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BODY SIZE; GRASSLAND; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032815171     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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