Measuring Biological DiversityJohn Wiley & Sons, 2003 M12 19 - 272 páginas This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics.
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The commonness and rarity of species | 18 |
How many species? | 72 |
An index of diversity | 100 |
Comparative studies of diversity | 131 |
Diversity in space and time | 162 |
No prospect of an end | 185 |
References | 194 |
Worked examples | 216 |
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