The effects of rarity and abundance distributions on measurements of local morphological disparity

Paleobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-189

  Deline, Bradley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECHINODERM; MORPHOMETRY; ORDOVICIAN; RARITY; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CRINOIDEA;

EID: 67449161271     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/08028.1     Document Type: Article

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