Towards a unifying approach to diversity measures: bridging the gap between the Shannon entropy and Rao's quadratic index

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2006.06.003zbMath1112.92067OpenAlexW2149621874WikidataQ51722767 ScholiaQ51722767MaRDI QIDQ884282

Carlo Ricotta, Laszlo Szeidl

Publication date: 13 June 2007

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2006.06.003

zbMATH Keywords

RarityConflictConcavityInformation theoryPairwise species distancesParametric diversity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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