Geographic locale and relative dominance patterns among North American passerine communities

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 668-676

  Husak, Michael S ^a,b   Linder, Eric T ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAMERON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; PASSERINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4544294249     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03708.x     Document Type: Article

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