Severe limitations of the FEve metric of functional evenness and some alternative metrics

Abstract The metric of functional evenness FEve is an example of how approaches to conceptualizing and measuring functional variability may go astray. This index has several critical conceptual and practical drawbacks: Different values of the FEve index for the same community can be obtained if the...

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Main Authors: Evsey Kosman, Samuel M. Scheiner, Hans‐Rolf Gregorius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6974