Computing β-diversity with Rao's quadratic entropy: A change of perspective: Biodiversity research

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-241

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Marignani, Michela ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

and diversity; Additive diversity models; Compositional diversity; Dissimilarity; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENTROPY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33847338913     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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