Range size-abundance relationships in Australian passerines

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 143-152

  Symonds, Matthew R E ^a,b   Johnson, Christopher N ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Birds; Distribution; Macroecology; Null model; Passeriformes; Population density; Range size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PASSERINE; RANGE SIZE;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33644764038     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2005.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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