On random placement and species-area relations

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(81)90086-9zbMath0465.92020OpenAlexW2026427126MaRDI QIDQ1154976

Bernard D. Coleman

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(81)90086-9

zbMATH Keywords

gammaspatial distributionspecies abundancelogarithmic series distributionbroken stick distributionPoisson lognormalrandom placementspecies-area relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Ecology (92D40)

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