Species abundance distributions: Pattern or process?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 177-181

  Magurran, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 16844380573     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00930.x     Document Type: Review

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