An updated consumer's guide to evenness and related indices

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1203-1218

  Tuomisto, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DIVERSITY INDEX; INDEX METHOD; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84863875668     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19897.x     Document Type: Article

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