A simple explanation for taxon abundance patterns

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 15017-15019

  Chu, Johan ^a   Adami, Christoph ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; FRACTALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033592954     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.26.15017     Document Type: Article

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