The lognormal distribution is not an appropriate null hypothesis for the species-abundance distribution

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 409-422

  Williamson, Mark ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado trees; British breeding birds; Central limit theorem; Ecuadorian butterflies; Individual abundance curves; Log binomial; Logit normal; Lognormal; Niche apportionment; Skewness; Species abundance distributions; Veil line

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NICHE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SKEWNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 20044390944     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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