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Science 3 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5800, pp. 770 - 772
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134920
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
A Renaissance in the Study of Abundance

Brian J. McGill

Ecologists have borrowed a powerful tool from physics to calculate how environmental constraints affect the abundance of species.

The author is in the Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1 Canada E-mail: mail{at}brianmcgill.org

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