Hubbell's fundamental biodiversity parameter and the Simpson diversity index

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 386-390

  He, Fangliang ^a   Hu, Xin Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Metacommunity; Neutral theory; Population genetics; Species abundance distribution; Species area curve; The Simpson index

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INDEX METHOD; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 17444400097     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00729.x     Document Type: Article

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