Unifying species diversity, phylogenetic diversity, functional diversity, and related similarity and differentiation measures through hill numbers

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 297-324

  Chao, Anne ^a   Chiu, Chun Huo ^a   Jost, Lou ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b EcoMinga Foundation   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

beta diversity; diversity decomposition; diversity measures; doubling property; replication principle; trait diversity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HILL; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84904306443     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091540     Document Type: Article

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