Maximizing Diversity in Biology and Beyond

Entropy, under a variety of names, has long been used as a measure of diversity in ecology, as well as in genetics, economics and other fields. There is a spectrum of viewpoints on diversity, indexed by a real parameter q giving greater or lesser importance to rare species. Leinster and Cobbold (201...

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Main Authors: Tom Leinster, Mark W. Meckes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/3/88