Relationships between species number, lake size and resource diversity in assemblages of breeding waterfowl

@article{Elmberg1994RelationshipsBS,
  title={Relationships between species number, lake size and resource diversity in assemblages of breeding waterfowl},
  author={Johan Elmberg and Petri Nummi and Hannu P{\"o}ys{\"a} and Kjell Sj{\"o}berg},
  journal={Journal of Biogeography},
  year={1994},
  volume={21},
  pages={75-84}
}
Breeding waterfowl, habitat diversity and food diversity were studied in 31 boreal lakes in Finland and Sweden. Lakes were 2-48 hectares in size, and had zero to eleven waterfowl species each. In a ... 
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