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diversity indexDiversitätsindex (ger.)
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A statistical measure of diversity, e.g. of the quantity of species and the evenness of their distribution within a community.
- 1943
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It is suggested that the parameter α should be know as the 'index of diversity' of the population.Fisher, R.A., Corbet, A.S. & Williams, C.B. (1943). The relation between the number of species and the number of individuals in a random sample of an animal population. J. Anim. Ecol. 12, 42-58: 49.
- 1950
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we cannot conclude from the figures for S and I alone that the biological associations observed at the two traps differed in diversity index α.Anscombe, F.J. (1950). Sampling theory of the negative binomial and logarithmic series distributions. Biometrika 37, 358-382: 379.
- 1982
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diversity index A measure of the number of species in a community and their relative abundances; such measures include the ratio between number of species and number of individuals, the Shannon-Wiener index, richness index, Brillouin index and Simpson index.
Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 71.