Scale effect and bimodality in the frequency distribution of species occupancy

Community Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-35

  Hui, C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Co distribution network; Community assemblage; Macroecology; Nestedness; Rank curve; Raunkiaer's law of frequency; Species by site matrix

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATRIX; NESTEDNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84862148180     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.13.2012.1.4     Document Type: Article

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