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An information-theoretical measure of taxonomic diversity.

Acta biotheoretica - 1 Jan 2003

Ricotta C, Avena G C

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Traditional diversity indices are computed from the abundances of species present and are insensitive to taxonomic differences between species. However, a community in which most species belong to the same genus is intuitively less diverse than another community with a similar number of species distributed more evenly between genera. In this paper, we propose an information-theoretical measure of taxonomic...

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PMID: 12765251
DOI: 10.1023/a:1023000322071

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