Assessing species abundance unevenness within and between plant communities

Community Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 237-246

  Strong, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Dominance concentration; Evenness; Lorenz partial order

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0037001067     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.3.2002.2.9     Document Type: Article

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