Observations on related ecological exponents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6931-6933

  Southwood, T Richard E ^a   May, Robert M ^a   Sugihara, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical hypothesis; Dimensionality; Power law; Scaling; Species area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646473520     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600988103     Document Type: Article

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