Empirical relationships between species richness, evenness, and proportional diversity

American Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 286-299

  Stirling, G ^a   Wilsey, B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diversity; Evenness; Path analysis; Richness; Species density

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0034856673     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321317     Document Type: Article

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