Diversity partitioning of Rao's quadratic entropy

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-302

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Szeidl, Laszlo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Alpha, beta and gamma diversities; Diversity partitioning; Equivalent number of species; Principle of 'maximum dissimilarity'; Replication principle

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY;

EID: 70449528633     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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