Introduction of relative abundance distribution (RAD) indices, estimated from the rank-frequency diagrams (RFD), to assess changes in community diversity

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 279-295

  Mouillot, David ^a,b   Lepretre, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^b Office de l'Environnement de la Corse   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Ecosystem stability; Multiple comparison; Niche diversity; Zipf Mandelbrot model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMMUNITY DIVERSITY; NICHE DIVERSITY; RANK FREQUENCY DIAGRAMS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION; ZIPF MANDELBROT MODEL;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INDEX METHOD; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033948652     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006297211561     Document Type: Article

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