Properties of crowding indices and statistical tools to analyze parasite crowding data

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-252

  Reiczigel, Jenö ^a   Lang, Zsolt ^a,b   Rózsa, Lajos ^a,c   Tothmérész, Béla ^a,d  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Nomogram Ltd   (Hungary)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXON;

EID: 19944419113     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-281R1     Document Type: Article

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