A semantic taxonomy for diversity measures

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-33

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complexity; Compositional diversity matrix; Divergence; Evenness; Pairwise species distances; Richness

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NOMENCLATURE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34447527103     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-007-9008-7     Document Type: Review

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