A parametric index of community evenness

Ecoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 511-515

  Ricotta, C ^a   Avena, G ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Evenness profile; Hill's parametric evenness; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INDEX METHOD; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0034486742     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2000.11682623     Document Type: Article

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