Frequent and occasional species and the shape of relative-abundance distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 263-269

  Ulrich, Werner ^a   Ollik, Marcin ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ecological drift; Hymenoptera; Log series; Lognormal; Parasitoids; Relative abundance distribution; Self similarity; Zero sum multinomial

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DRIFT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PARASITOID; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 3042802244     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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