Splitting the tail of the displacement kernel shows the unimportance of kurtosis

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1784-1790

  Lindström, Tom ^a   Häkansson, Nina ^b   Westerberg, Lars ^a   Wennergren, Uno ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Displacement; Kurtosis; Long distance dispersers; Population distribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISPERSAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOVEMENT; PERSISTENCE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 54549120239     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1363.1     Document Type: Article

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