The interpretation of biological surveys

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1533, 2003, Pages 2531-2542

  Bell, Graham ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Distribution; Diversity; Evenness; Range; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DISPERSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THEORY;

EID: 0346461699     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2550     Document Type: Review

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