Goodness-of-fit measures of evenness: A new tool for exploring changes in community structure

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Studeny, A C ^a   Buckland, S T ^a   Illian, J B ^a   Johnston, A ^b   Magurran, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Divergence measures; Diversity indices; Diversity ordering; Diversity profiles; Evenness; Goodness of fit statistics; Hill's diversity numbers; Rare species; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861442203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00074.1     Document Type: Article

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