Measures, perceptions and scaling patterns of aggregated species distributions

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Hui, Cang ^a   Veldtman, Ruan ^a   McGeoch, Melodie A ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DISPERSION; HETEROGENEITY; MACROECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953919507     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05997.x     Document Type: Article

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