The birds and the seas: Body size reconciles differences in the abundance-occupancy relationship across marine and terrestrial vertebrates

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 537-549

  Webb, Thomas J ^a   Dulvy, Nicholas K ^b   Jennings, Simon ^c,d   Polunin, Nicholas V C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOME; BIRD; BODY SIZE; ENERGY USE; FISH; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; MACROECOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953014915     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.18870.x     Document Type: Article

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