What do we win 'confounding' species richness and evenness in a diversity index?;O que ganhamos 'confundindo' riqueza de espécies e equabilidade em um índice de diversidade?

Biota Neotropica

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 21-27

  Melo, Adriano Sanches ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diversity profiles; Hill's series; R nyi's series; Shannon index; Simpson index; Whittaker's plot

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849126008     PISSN: 16786424     EISSN: 16760611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032008000300001     Document Type: Article

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