Identification of the Bray-Curtis similarity index: Comment on Yoshioka (2008)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 372, Issue , 2008, Pages 303-306

  Somerfield, Paul J ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bray curtis; Czekanowski; Dissimilarity; Resemblance; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249118168     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07841     Document Type: Note

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