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ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 361-365Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S1470-160X(03)00005-0
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Biodiversity; Evenness; Hill's diversity numbers; Landscape dominance; Renyi's generalized entropy
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Entropy-related biodiversity indices deriving their conceptual basis from Shannon's information theory have a long history of use in ecology for quantifying community structure and diversity. In addition, in the last two decades, numerous information-theoretical indices, such as the landscape dominance index, have been extensively applied to characterize landscape diversity in space and time. In this contribution, we offer a simple analytical relation between Pielou's evenness J and landscape dominance D within the broader context of Hill's parametric diversity family. Within this context, we recommend the use of Hill's diversity number evenness E-1,E-0 to overcome the shortcomings both of Pielou's evenness J and the landscape dominance index D. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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