Species richness, endemism and abundance patterns: Tests of two fractal models in a serpentine grassland

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 919-928

  Green, Jessica L ^a   Harte, John ^b   Ostling, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endemics area relationship; Fractals; Random placement; Self similarity; Serpentine grassland; Species abundance distribution; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; SERPENTINE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141595138     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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