The energetic equivalence rule rejected because of a potentially common sampling error: Evidence from carabid beetles

Oikos

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 367-375

  Arneberg, Per ^a   Andersen, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; ERROR ANALYSIS; PITFALL TRAP; SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037790994     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11527.x     Document Type: Article

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