Patterns within patterns: Abundance-size relationships within the hemiptera of tropical rain forest or why phylogeny matters

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 509-514

  Hodkinson, Ian D ^a   Casson, David S ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; INSECT; PHYLOGENY; RAINFOREST; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

INDONESIA; SULAWESI;

HEMIPTERA;

EID: 0034057902     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880306.x     Document Type: Article

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