A statistical theory for sampling species abundances

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1037-1045

  Green, Jessica L ^a   Plotkin, Joshua B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community; Negative binomial sampling; Random sampling; Spatial aggregation; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL CONCEPT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548523806     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01101.x     Document Type: Article

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