A simple transformation for sets of range sizes

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 674-680

  Williamson, Mark ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANGE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMATION;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033500516     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00516.x     Document Type: Article

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