Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6933, 2003, Pages 714-716

  Magurran, Anne E ^a   Henderson, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b PISCES CONSERVATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FISHERIES; OCEAN HABITATS;

ESTUARINE HABITATS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ESTUARY; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0037452044     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01547     Document Type: Article

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