Strong requirements for weak diversities

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 218-219

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity indices; Expected species diversity; Taxonomic distinctness; Weak species monotonicity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INDICES AND EQUATIONS;

EID: 33644836545     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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