Quantifying spatial pattern with evenness indices

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 507-520

  Payne, Laura X ^a,b   Schindler, Daniel E ^b   Parrish, Julia K ^b   Temple, Stanley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Camargo's index of evenness; Conservation; Dispersion; Evenness index; Lloyd's index of mean crowding; Migration; Shannon diversity index; Shorebird; Simpson's index of evenness; Smith Wilson index; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; INDEX METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONCEPT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EVENNESS; WADER;

CALIDRIS ALBA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS; CHARADRIUS VOCIFERUS;

EID: 15944412912     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5029     Document Type: Article

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