Scale dependency in the functional form of the distance decay relationship

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-320

  Nekola, Jeffrey C ^a   Mcgill, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DEPENDENCY; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT; POWER LAW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES POOL; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST; TURNOVER;

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EID: 84897114796     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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