Negative density-area relationships: The importance of the zeros

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-210

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human biogeography; Land use patterns; Macro ecology; Plot area effect; Presence absence; Sampling size; Scaling of abundances; Spatial autocorrelation; Study grain; Urban density functions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; LAND USE PLANNING; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY; URBAN AREA;

CENTRAL EUROPE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; ITALY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VIOLA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 38949156776     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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