Occupancy, Spatial Variance, and the Abundance of Species

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 366-375

  He, Fangliang ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Metapopulation dynamics; Occupancy; Rescue effect; Spatial distribution; Spatial variance; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; NOTE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141479126     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377190     Document Type: Note

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