Species-area functions revisited

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1994-2004

  Williams, Matthew R ^a,b   Lamont, Byron B ^a   Henstridge, John D ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Data Analysis Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIC; Beta P; Chapman Richards; EVF; Generalized linear model; Logistic; MONOD; Morgan Mercer Flodin; Negative exponential; Weibull function

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; WEIBULL THEORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349306740     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02110.x     Document Type: Article

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