Analyzing the (mis)behavior of Shannon index in eutrophication studies using field and simulated phytoplankton assemblages

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 697-703

  Spatharis, Sofie ^a   Roelke, Daniel L ^b   Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Kokkoris, Giorgos D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Log series; Phytoplankton diversity; Productivity; Random fraction; Simulated assemblages; Unimodal; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

LOG SERIES; PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITIES; RANDOM FRACTION; SIMULATED ASSEMBLAGES; UNIMODAL; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

EUTROPHICATION;

DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EUTROPHICATION; FIELD SURVEY; NONLINEARITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 79954424165     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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