The Leinster and Cobbold indices improve inferences about microbial diversity

Fungal Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Veresoglou, Stavros D ^a,b   Powell, Jeff R ^c   Davison, John ^d   Lekberg, Ylva ^e   Rillig, Matthias C ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Bootstrapping; Hill numbers; Phylogenetic taxa similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906732327     PISSN: 17545048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.03.006     Document Type: Article

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