Occupancy frequency distributions: Patterns, artefacts and mechanisms

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 311-331

  McGeoch, Melodie A ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core satellite hypothesis; Metapopulation dynamics; Occupancy; Sampling artefacts; Spatial scaling; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTIFACT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; LANDSCAPE; METAPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

EID: 0036668738     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793101005887     Document Type: Review

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