Fractal species distributions do not produce power-law species-area relationships

Oikos

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 378-386

  Lennon, Jack J ^a   Kunin, William E ^a   Hartley, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; POWER LAW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

POACEAE;

EID: 0036066067     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.970308.x     Document Type: Article

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