The use of relative abundance patterns to discriminate among niche apportionment processes

Community Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-38

  Laird, R A ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Best fit test; Broken stick models; Community structure; Ecological assembly; Monte Carlo simulation; Niche apportionment model; Relative abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NICHE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

EID: 0036059335     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.3.2002.1.4     Document Type: Article

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