Comparison of measures of crowding, group size, and diversity

Abstract In ecology, diversity is often measured as the mean rarity of species in a community. In behavioral sciences and parasitology, mean crowding is the size of the group to which a typical individual belongs. In this paper, focusing mostly on the mathematical aspect, we demonstrate that diversi...

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Main Authors: Zsolt Lang, Lajos Rózsa, Jenő Reiczigel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-07-01
Series:Ecosphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1897