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Ecologists have long recognized that species are not equally abundant, and that communities with similar species densities often differ in another way; the relative importance or abundance of the constituent species. Considerable effort has been expended in attempts to document differences and regularities in relative abundances, as an understanding of these may well provide an insight into the structure of natural communities [210].
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© 1984 Paul S. Giller
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Giller, P.S. (1984). The relative abundance of species. In: Community Structure and the Niche. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5558-5_9
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