A supplementary tool to existing approaches for assessing ecosystem community structure
Measures of biological or species diversity are central to ecology and conservation biology. Although there are several commonly used indices, each has shortcomings and all vary in the relative emphasis they place on the number of species and their relative abundance. We propose utilizing Fisher Inf...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Ecological modelling. - 1980. - 355(2017) vom: 10. Juli, Seite 64-69
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1. Verfasser: |
Hopton, Matthew E
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Weitere Verfasser: |
Karunanithi, Arunprakash T,
Garmestani, Ahjond S,
White, Denis,
Choate, Jerry R,
Cabezas, Heriberto |
Format: | Online-Aufsatz
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Sprache: | English |
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2017
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Ecological modelling
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Schlagworte: | Journal Article
Fisher Information
Shannon index
Simpson index
biological diversity
community structure
diversity indices
randomization
resampling |