Multimodal species abundance distributions: A deconstruction approach reveals the processes behind the pattern

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 533-544

  Matthews, Thomas J ^a,b   Borges, Paulo A V ^b   Whittaker, Robert J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTHROPOD; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; DISPERSAL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AZORES; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84898822562     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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