A recipe for unconventional evenness measures

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-104

  Ricotta, C ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

continuity; fuzzy sets; Lorenz order; possibility distributions; specificity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SPECIES EVENNESS;

FUZZY LOGIC; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FUZZY LOGIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 5444276557     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ACBI.0000043438.41888.ac     Document Type: Review

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