Relationships between distribution and abundance vary with spatial scale and ecological group in stream bryophytes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1879-1889

  Heino, Jani ^a   Virtanen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Distribution patterns; Interspecific distribution abundance relationship; Streams

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BRYOPHYTE; DRAINAGE BASIN; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 33748756592     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01624.x     Document Type: Article

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