The Bray-Curtis similarity index remains misidentified: Reply to Somerfield (2008)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 372, Issue , 2008, Pages 307-309

  Yoshioka, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Bray curtis; Double standardization; Percentage similarity; Software errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249120009     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07842     Document Type: Note

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