Commentary: Do we have a consistent terminology for species diversity? Yes, if we choose to use it

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 903-911

  Tuomisto, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Diversity partitioning; Gamma diversity; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENTROPY; INSECT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NOMENCLATURE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERMINOLOGY;

HETEROPTERA;

EID: 80855123561     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2128-4     Document Type: Article

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