Describing inequality in plant size or fecundity

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1139-1142

  Damgaard, Christian ^a   Weiner, Jacob ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Fecundity; Gamma distribution; Gini coefficient; Growth; Inequality; Lognormal distribution; Lorenz curve; Plant; Size; Size distributions

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; PLANT; SIZE EFFECT;

EID: 0033949746     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1139:DIIPSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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