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A typing error in Tokeshi's test of bimodality
| dc.contributor.author | Barreto, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Borges, Paulo A. V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guo, Q. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-13T10:48:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-13T10:48:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-03 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2012-06-07T14:20:26Z | |
| dc.description | Copyright © 2003 Blackwell Publishing | en |
| dc.description.abstract | “One way to describe patterns of species distribution is to plot the frequency histograms using species–range-size data (Gaston, 1994; Brown, 1995; Gaston & Blackburn, 2000). Usually the untransformed geographical ranges of species are distributed following a ‘hollow curve’, i.e. most species have narrow ranges and very few have widespread distributions. This highly ‘right-skewed’ curve has been regarded as unimodal (e.g. Gaston, 1994). In some cases, however, the species-range-size distribution shows a bimodal pattern (Hanski, 1982; Brown, 1984, 1995; Gaston, 1994; Gaston & Blackburn, 2000), in which to the left-hand mode is added a right hand mode generated by the widespread group of species that occur in almost all sampled sites. The ‘core-satellite species hypothesis’ (Hanski, 1982) and the ‘resource usage model’ (Brown, 1984, 1995) were proposed to explain the finding that a few species are regionally common (widespread) and locally abundant (the ‘core’ species in Hanski’s model; the generalists or broad-niched species in Brown’s model), while most species can be regarded as having smaller ranges and low local abundances (the ‘satellite’ species in Hanski’s model; the specialists or narrow-niched species in Brown’s model). […]” | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Barreto, S.; Borges, P.A.V.; Guo, Q.. A typing error in Tokeshi's test of bimodality. "Global Ecology and Biogeography", 12(2), 173-174, 2003. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1466-822X (Print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1466-8238 (Online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1408 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | por |
| dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing | por |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00018.x | por |
| dc.subject | Ecology | en |
| dc.title | A typing error in Tokeshi's test of bimodality | en |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 174 | por |
| oaire.citation.issue | 2 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 173 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Global Ecology and Biogeography | en |
| oaire.citation.volume | 12 | por |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |