Measuring Biological DiversityThis 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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abun abundance of species abundant species analysis approach assemblages assessment benthic biodiversity Biol biological diversity biomass broken stick Buzas calculated Chao Chapter Clarke Coddington 1994 confidence limits conservation cumulative data sets distribution of species diversity index diversity measures dominance Ecol ecological ecologists estimate of species example Figure fish forest Gaston geometric series Gotelli graph habitat Henderson 2000 investigation jackknife Kolmogorov-Smirnov Kolmogorov-Smirnov test log normal distribution log series distribution Magurran measure of diversity method n₁ niche apportionment models niche space null models number of individuals number of species observed pattern of species Pielou pollution quartile rank/abundance plot rare species rarefaction rarity relationship relative abundance replicate Rohlf sampling effort scale Shannon index Simpson index sity Sokal spatial speciation species abundance distribution species accumulation curves species diversity Species rank species richness ẞ diversity taxa taxonomic taxonomic distinctness tion Tokeshi total number turnover Warwick Whittaker Wilson