Unifying and distinguishing diversity ordering methods for comparing communities

Population Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-100

  Liu, Canran ^a   Whittaker, Robert J ^b   Ma, Keping ^c   Malcolm, Jay R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity indices; Diversity profile; Intrinsic diversity; Right tail sum method; Species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33947140529     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-006-0026-0     Document Type: Review

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