Nonrandom diversification within taxonomic assemblages

Systematic Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 26-37

  Dial, Kenneth P ^a   Marzluff, John M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hollow curve distributions; Nonrandom dominance; Null models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959814886     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/38.1.26     Document Type: Article

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