Biological diversity: Distinct distributions can lead to the maximization of Rao's quadratic entropy

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 153-163

  Pavoine, Sandrine ^a,b   Bonsall, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biological conservation; Circumcenter; Diversity apportionment; Euclidean; evenness; Pairwise species distances; Richness; Smallest enclosing hypersphere; Ultrametric distances

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; NATURE CONSERVATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ENTROPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ENTROPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 64649092907     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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