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Publications (1)


The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity: Part 1
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January 1962

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Ecology

Ecology

F.W. Preston
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... They 477 are also distinct (Fig. 4). The half-power exponential (HPE) spans a wide region (dark blue distributions (Fisher et al., 1943;MacArthur, 1957;Preston, 1962;May, 1975;Sugihara, 490 1980;Hughes, 1986;Tokeshi, 1990;Hubbell, 2001). However, influential papers such as 491 Thus, fitting SADs can be considerably informative -but only when distributions are simple 496 and grounded in models. ...

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Simple and robust models of ecological abundance
The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity: Part 1
  • Citing Article
  • January 1962

Ecology

Ecology