Investigating beta diversity by Kullback-Leibler information measures

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 299-313

  Ludovisi, Alessandro ^a   Taticchi, Maria Illuminata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Kullback Leibler information; Lake Trasimeno; Phytoplankton; Similarity indices

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

KULLBACK-LEIBER INFORMATION; LAKE TRASIMENO; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIMILARITY INDICES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PHYTOPLANKTON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAKE TRASIMENO; PERUGIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA;

EID: 31544463776     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.05.022     Document Type: Article

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