Rarity, commonness, and the contribution of individual species to species richness patterns

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-93

  Šiding, Arnošt L ^a,b   Šizlingová, Eva ^a   Storch, David ^a   Reif, Jiří ^a,c   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Charles University   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Diversity distribution; Diversity patterns; Incidence matrix; Macroecology; Nestedness; Occupancy distribution

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NESTEDNESS; RARE SPECIES; RARITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES;

EID: 70149117505     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599305     Document Type: Article

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