Testing generalities in the shape of patch occupancy frequency distributions

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3163-3177

  Van Rensburg, B J ^a   McGeoch, M A ^a   Matthews, W ^a   Chown, S L ^a   Van Jaarsveld, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Area effect; Bimodality; Community structure; Core satellite hypothesis; Metapopulations; Range size; Rescue effect; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BIMODALITY; METAPOPULATION; PATCH USE; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0033751097     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[3163:TGITSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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