How differences in plant abundance measures produce different species-abundance distributions

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 783-786

  Anderson, Barbara J ^a   Chiarucci, Alessandro ^b   Williamson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass; Community structure; Marginal plot; Point quadrat; Relative abundance distributions; Serpentine vegetation; Veil line

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875266558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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