Can We Tell How a Community Was Constructed? A Comparison of Five Evenness Indices for Their Ability to Identify Theoretical Models of Community Construction

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-151

  Mouillot, David ^a   Wilson, J Bastow ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SPECIES EVENNESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0036512734     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2001.1565     Document Type: Article

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