Universal ecological patterns in college basketball communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Warren II, Robert J ^a   Skelly, David K ^a   Schmitz, Oswald J ^a   Bradford, Mark A ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMIC RANK; TREE; TROPICS; BASKETBALL; BIOTA; DEMOGRAPHY; INTERNET; PUBLICATION; UNIVERSITY;

BASKETBALL; BIOTA; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79952397843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017342     Document Type: Article

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