The 'abundant centre' distribution: To what extent is it a biogeographical rule?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 137-147

  Sagarin, Raphael D ^a   Gaines, Steven D ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Central and marginal populations; Distribution of abundance; Range edge

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE;

EID: 0036171546     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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