Artifactions in the log-transformation of species abundance distributions

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-268

  Nekola, Jeffrey C ^a   Šizling, Arnošt L ^b,c   Boyer, Alison G ^a   Storch, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Commonness and rarity; Community structure; Diversity; Lognormal distribution; Macroecology; Models; Population size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DIVERSITY INDEX; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HISTOGRAM; MACROECOLOGY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RARITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 58849153136     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12224-008-9020-y     Document Type: Article

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