Spatial scaling of species abundance distributions

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 549-556

  Borda de Água, Luís ^a   Borges, Paulo A V ^c   Hubbell, Stephen P ^d,e   Pereira, Henrique M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; RAINFOREST; SHRUB;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

EID: 84861750159     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07128.x     Document Type: Article

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