Fitting abundance distribution models in tropical arboreal communities of SE Brazil

Community Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 169-180

  Cielo Filho, R ^a   Martins, F R ^a   Gneri, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Institute of Mathematics Statistics and Scientific Computation   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cohens's table; Community structure; Disturbance; Diversity; Simpsons's index variance; Stress; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036998669     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.3.2002.2.4     Document Type: Article

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