A note on functional diversity measures

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 479-486

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concavity; Euclidean space; Pairwise species distances; Quadratic entropy; Set monotonicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144468858     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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