Lorenz partial order: The best known logical framework to define evenness indices

Community Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 197-207

  Gosselin, F ^a  

^a Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Equitability; Lorenz partial order; Regularity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INDEX METHOD; SPECIES EVENNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035669586     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.2.2001.2.7     Document Type: Article

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