Mass-dependent mass loss: How to get the null hypothesis wrong

Oikos

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 413-416

  Thomas, Ruf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

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Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0342521309     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900223.x     Document Type: Article

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