Distribution of abundance across the range in eastern North American trees

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-71

  Murphy, Helen T ^a,b   VanDerWal, Jeremy ^a   Lovett Doust, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Abundant centre; Distribution; Macroecology; Occupancy; Range; Spatial auto correlation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; MACROECOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644882259     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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