Scaling in stream communities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1509, 2002, Pages 2587-2594

  Schmid, Peter E ^a   Tokeshi, Mutsunori ^b   Schmid Araya, Jenny M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body size spectra; Communities; Fractal dimension; Habitat complexity; Scaling; Streams

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE USE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STREAM;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRIA; MYNACH; SEEBACH; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES (MID GLAMORGAN);

INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037160241     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2195     Document Type: Article

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