Estimating the niche preemption parameter of the geometric series

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-107

  He, Fangliang ^a   Tang, Danling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric series; Niche partitioning; Species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUNGUS; GEOMETRY; INSECT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 38649116327     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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