The discovery of species-abundance distribution in an ecological community

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-182

  Doi, Hideyuki ^a   Mori, Terutaka ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84872606152     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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