On hierarchical diversity decomposition

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-226

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community similarity; Diversity partition; Equivalent number of species; Shannon's entropy

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 20444435977     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2005.tb02359.x     Document Type: Article

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