On plotting species abundance distributions

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 752-756

  Gray, John S ^a   Bjørgesæter, Anders ^a   Ugland, Karl I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Binning; Models; SAD plots

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TREES;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 33646557312     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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