Measuring diversity: The importance of species similarity

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 477-489

  Leinster, Tom ^a   Cobbold, Christina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diversity; Diversity profile; Effective number; Entropy; Microbial diversity; Model; Quadratic entropy; Species similarity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84860253102     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2402.1     Document Type: Article

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