Invariance in species-abundance distributions

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-103

  Šizling, Arnošt L ^a,b   Storch, David ^b   Reif, Jiří ^b   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Area invariance; Frequency distributions; Population sizes; Relative abundances; Scale invariance; Taxon invariance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 67349201126     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-008-0031-3     Document Type: Article

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