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