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

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2006.06.003MaRDI QIDQ884282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors 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

RarityInformation theoryConcavityConflictPairwise species distancesParametric diversity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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