vol. 158, no. 3 the american naturalistseptember 2001 Empirical Relationships between Species Richness, Evenness, and Proportional Diversity Gray Stirling 1, * and Brian Wilsey 2 1.
Over the past decadealargeand rapidly growing number of experimental studies (primarily using plants) have addressed how species richness affects ecosystem functioning (recently reviewed by Loreauetal. 2002, Kinzigetal. 2002).
Diversity 2010 , 2 , 207-232; doi:10.3390/d2020207 diversity ISSN 1424-2818 www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity Article The Relation between Evenness and Diversity Lou Jost Via a Runtun, Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador; E-Mail: loujost@yahoo.com; Tel.: 593-09244-9029 Received: 31 December 2009 / Accepted ...
Abstract Diversity has two basic components: richness, or number of species in a given area, and evenness, or how relative abundance or biomass is distributed among species.
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J. mar. bioi. Ass. U.K. (1974) 54,559-563 Printed in Great Britain 559 COMPARING SPECIES DIVERSITY AND EVENNESS INDICES ByC. HElP AND P. ENGELS Department of Zoology, State University of Ghent, Belgium In alow diversity brackish water habitat the diversity of the copepod community is best ...
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Comparing richness and evenness contributions to tree species diversity from Kenyan, Ugandan, Cameroonian and Nigerian site...
emphasizing the evenness component. These indices can show considerable variation in response to changes in landscape richness and evenness. However, the possibility of encoun
J EAN -N ICOLAS B EISEL *, P HILIPPE U SSEGLIO -P OLATERA , V INCENT B ACHMANN and J EAN -C LAUDE M ORETEAU UPRES "Ecotoxicité, Biodiversité et Santé Environnementale", Equipe de Démoécologie, Université de Metz, UFR SciFA - Campus Bridoux, Av. du Général Delestraint, 57070 METZ, France ...