Scaling down: On the challenge of estimating abundance from occurrence patterns

American Naturalist

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 560-566

  Kunin, W E ^a   Hartley, S ^a   Lennon, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fractals; Negative binomial; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033789940     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303408     Document Type: Note

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