Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 488-501

  Morlon, Hélène ^a   White, Ethan P ^b   Etienne, Rampal S ^a,c   Green, Jessica L ^a,d   Ostling, Annette ^e   Alonso, David ^f   Enquist, Brian J ^d,e,f   He, Fangliang ^g   Hurlbert, Allen ^h   Magurran, Anne E ⁱ   Maurer, Brian A ^j   McGill, Brian J ^k   Olff, Han ^b   Storch, David ^l,m   Zillio, Tommaso ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

^g Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^k MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^m CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

Biomass; Body size; Energy use; Macroecology; Metabolic theory; Resource partitioning; Size distribution; Size density relationship; Size energy relationship; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROECOLOGY; METABOLISM; NICHE PARTITIONING; RESOURCE USE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; FOOD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; FOOD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 65649125185     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01318.x     Document Type: Article

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