On measuring pedodiversity

Geoderma

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 149-154

  McBratney, Alex ^a   Minasny, Budiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity indices; Pedodiversity; Shannon's entropy; Simpson's diversity; Soil variation; Taxonomic distance

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDICES; PEDODIVERSITY; SHANNONS ENTROPY; SIMPSONS DIVERSITY; SOIL VARIATION; TAXONOMIC DISTANCE;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ENTROPY; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

SOILS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENTROPY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PEDOLOGY;

EID: 34447647835     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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