Fitting stochastic models of relative abundance distributions to species abundance data

Ecological Questions

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 127-133

  Ulrich, Werner ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Community structure; Least squares; Species frequency distribution; Species rank order distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144439047     PISSN: 16447298     EISSN: 20835469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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