
Ecology 5th Edition by Manuel Molles
Edition 5ISBN: 978-0070171688
Ecology 5th Edition by Manuel Molles
Edition 5ISBN: 978-0070171688 Exercise 18
Why did the massive sampling efforts associated with the moth collections shown in figure 16.4 reveal only a portion of the lognormal distribution, while the studies of birds and plants produced the nearly complete lognormal distributions shown in figure 16.3?
Figure 16.3 Lognormal distributions of ( a ) desert plants and
( b ) forest birds (data from Whittaker 1965, Preston 1962a).
Figure 16.4 Sample size and the lognormal distribution (data from Preston 1948).

Figure 16.3 Lognormal distributions of ( a ) desert plants and
( b ) forest birds (data from Whittaker 1965, Preston 1962a).

Figure 16.4 Sample size and the lognormal distribution (data from Preston 1948).
Explanation
The lognormal distribution can be plotte...
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