Number, length, area or biomass: Can there be intermidiates?

Ecoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 264-267

  Mouillot, D ^a   Culioli, J M ^a   Wilson, J B ^a   Frodello, J P ^a   Lepretre A ^a   Marchand, B ^a  

^a Lab Parasites et Eco Méd   (France)

Author keywords

Abundance metrics; Allometric relationship; Body sizes; Fractionaldimension

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034947839     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2001.11682653     Document Type: Article

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