Does the species/area relationship account for the density/area relationship?

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 545-551

  Nee, Sean ^a   Cotgreave, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Save British Science   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0036954390     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.11637.x     Document Type: Article

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