Lognormality in ecological time series

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 518-530

  Halley, John ^a   Inchausti, Pablo ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0036957723     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.11962.x     Document Type: Article

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