How selection structures species abundance distributions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1743, 2012, Pages 3722-3726

  Magurran, Anne E ^a   Henderson, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b PISCES CONSERVATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomass; Body size; Estuarine fish; Predation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GUILD; PREDATION RISK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84864921299     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1379     Document Type: Article

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