Assessment of species diversity from species abundance distributions at different localities

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 738-748

  Engen, Steinar ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Sverdrup Thygeson, Anne ^b   Grøtan, Vidar ^a   Ødegaard, Frode ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; POISSON RATIO; RARITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 42949166099     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16466.x     Document Type: Article

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