A general and dynamic species abundance model, embracing the lognormal and the gamma models

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 497-511

  Diserud, Ola H ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

logistic density regulation; Demographic variance; Diffusion approximation; Dynamic species abundance models; Environmental variance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 0034099962     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303339     Document Type: Article

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