Patterns of relative species abundance in rainforests and coral reefs

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7166, 2007, Pages 45-49

  Volkov, Igor ^a   Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b,c   Maritan, Amos ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 35948943116     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06197     Document Type: Article

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