Community assessment techniques and the implications for rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3580
Abstract: Abstract Diversity estimates play a key role in ecological assessments. Species richness and abundance are commonly used to generate complex diversity indices that are dependent on the quality of these estimates. As such, there is… read more here.
Keywords: community assessment; hill numbers; rarefaction extrapolation; diversity ... See more keywords
A functional approach to Hill's numbers for assessing changes in species variety of ecological communities over time
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.016
Abstract: Abstract Humans are dependent on a large number of species of animals, plants, fungi, and microbes that provide indispensable ecosystem functions and produce essential goods. Apart from the economic valuation of the direct and indirect… read more here.
Keywords: ecological communities; approach hill; biodiversity; functional approach ... See more keywords
Unsupervised classification of ecological communities ranked according to their biodiversity patterns via a functional principal component decomposition of Hill’s numbers integral functions
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.013
Abstract: Abstract Biodiversity is recognized as one of the corner-stones of healthy ecosystems, thus its conservation is increasingly becoming one of the most important targets of environmental management. Despite there is a general recognition that it… read more here.
Keywords: numbers integral; functional principal; ecological communities; biodiversity ... See more keywords
A guide to the application of Hill numbers to DNA‐based diversity analyses
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DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13014
Abstract: With the advent of DNA sequencing‐based techniques, the way we detect and measure biodiversity is undergoing a radical shift. There is also an increasing awareness of the need to employ intuitively meaningful diversity measures based… read more here.
Keywords: dna based; diversity; numbers dna; application hill ... See more keywords
Quantifying phenological diversity: a framework based on Hill numbers theory
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13412
Abstract: Background Despite the great concern triggered by the environmental crisis worldwide, the loss of temporal key functions and processes involved in biodiversity maintenance has received little attention. Species are restricted in their life cycles by… read more here.
Keywords: phenological diversity; community; diversity; hill numbers ... See more keywords