Comparison of diversity indices applied to macrophyte incidence-based data

In this work, a recently proposed diversity index based on Patil and Taillie parametric diversity measure (or Tsallis entropy), Sq*, was applied to samples (presence-absence data) of macrophytes from the Itaipu Reservoir, Brazil. This new index was the value of the family of indices Sq for a specifi...

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Main Authors: Heloísa Beatriz Antoniazi Evangelista, Sidinei Magela Thomaz, Luiz Roberto Evangelista
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2012-04-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132012000200014