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The lognormal distribution is not an appropriate null hypothesis for the species–abundance distribution |
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| Authors: | MARK WILLIAMSON KEVIN J GASTON† |
| Institution: | Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK;and;Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK |
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| Keywords: | Barro Colorado trees British breeding birds central limit theorem Ecuadorian butterflies individual abundance curves log-binomial logit-normal lognormal niche apportionment skewness species–abundance distributions veil line |