Species abundance distributions over time

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 347-354

  Magurran, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core satellite species; Frequent and occasional species; Preston; Sampling; Species abundance distributions; Veil line

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RARITY; SAMPLING; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LANCASHIRE; PRESTON; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248172978     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01024.x     Document Type: Review

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