Species in the tail of rank-abundance curves

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1806-1816

  Murray, Brad R ^e   Rice, Barbara L ^c   Keith, David A ^a   Myerscough, Peter J ^c   Howell, Jocelyn ^b   Floyd, Alex G ^c   Mills, Kevin ^d   Westoby, Mark ^c  

^a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^c Ecol and Environmental Consultants ^*

^d Ecol and Environmental Consultants   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Geographical range; Macroecology; Plants; Rain forest; Rank abundance curve; Sclerophyll woodland

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 0032851666     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1806:SITTOR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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