Relations between Abundance, Body Size and Species Number in British Birds and Mammals

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

• Publication date

  1996-03-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/RSTB.1996.0023
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