Missing the rarest: Is the positive interspecific abundance-distribution relationship a truly general macroecological pattern?

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 492-494

  Komonen, Atte ^a   Päivinen, Jussi ^b   Kotiaho, Janne S ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Natural Heritage Services   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Abundance distribution relationship; Lepidoptera; Macroecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION RELATIONSHIP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; BUTTERFLY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 67749111619     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0282     Document Type: Note

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