Diversity partitioning without statistical independence of alpha and beta

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1964-1969

  Veech, Joseph A ^a   Crist, Thomas O ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Alpha; And gamma; Beta; Data simulation; Diversity partitioning; Multiplicative partitioning; Statistical independence

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTBOOK;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954578643     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1727.1     Document Type: Article

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