Testing species abundance models: A new bootstrap approach applied to Indo-Pacific coral reefs

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3138-3149

  Connolly, Sean R ^a   Dornelas, Maria ^a   Bellwood, David R ^a   Hughes, Terence P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coral reefs; Macroecology; Neutral theory; Parametric bootstrap; Species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIODIVERSITY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CORAL REEF; MACROECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; RARITY;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 72449175940     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1832.1     Document Type: Article

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