Species abundance distributions: Moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 995-1015

  McGill, Brian J ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^b   Gray, John S ^c   Alonso, David ^d   Anderson, Marti J ^e   Benecha, Habtamu Kassa ^b   Dornelas, Maria ^f   Enquist, Brian J ^g   Green, Jessica L ^h   He, Fangliang ⁱ   Hurlbert, Allen H ^j   Magurran, Anne E ^f   Marquet, Pablo A ^j,k,l   Maurer, Brian A ^m   Ostling, Annette ^d   Soykan, Candan U ⁿ   Ugland, Karl I ^c   White, Ethan P ^g  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g University of Arizona   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^j NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^k PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^m MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Environmental indicators; Macroecology; Scientific inference; Species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; MACROECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 34548536276     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01094.x     Document Type: Review

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