The distribution of abundance in neutral communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 606-617

  Bell, Graham ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biodiversity; Neutral model; Species diversity; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; IMMIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034070864     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303345     Document Type: Article

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