Measuring biological diversity

被引:131
作者
Solow, Andrew R. [1 ]
Polasky, Stephen [2 ]
机构
[1] Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Marine Policy Ctr, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
[2] Oregon State Univ, Dept Agr & Resource Econ, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
关键词
comparison of linear experiments; diversity; effective number of species; Gallot's inequality;
D O I
10.1007/BF02426650
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
The diversity of a set of species refers to the joint dissimilarity of the species in the set. This paper discusses the measurement of diversity from the set of pairwise distances between the species in the set. A measure called the effective number of species is developed from a non-parametric probability inequality and is shown to have a simple interpretation in terms of comparing linear experiments.
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页码:95 / 103
页数:9
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