Comparison of diversity indices applied to macrophyte incidence-based data

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 277-282

  Evangelista, Heloísa Beatriz Antoniazi ^a   Thomaz, Sidinei Magela ^a   Evangelista, Luiz Roberto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Macrophytes; Reservoir; Shannon; Simpson; Tsallis entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865075588     PISSN: 15168913     EISSN: 16784324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-89132012000200014     Document Type: Article

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