Treating the nestedness temperature calculator as a black box can lead to false conclusions

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 193-199

  Fischer, Joern ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIRD; DATA SET; NESTEDNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 0036774908     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.990121.x     Document Type: Review

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