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The Q-statistic and the diversity of floras
R. A. Kempton,L. R. Taylor +1 more
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Ecological Diversity and its Measurement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define definitions of diversity and apply them to the problem of measuring species diversity, choosing an index and interpreting diversity measures, and applying them to structural and structural diversity.
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Application of species richness estimators for the assessment of fungal diversity
TL;DR: Multivariate analysis revealed the importance of different tree species for the conservation and maintenance of fungal diversity within forests, because each tree species possessed a characteristic fungal community.
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Biodiversity of parasites in a freshwater environment with respect to pollution: metazoan parasites of chub (Leuciscus cephalus L.) as a model for statistical evaluation
TL;DR: An attempt to evaluate the environmental indicative potential of the biodiversity of monogenean parasites using hierarchically structured species-abundance data revealed a significant decrease in the number of parasite species with a more equal distribution of their abundances in the polluted site compared with the control site.
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Microbial Iron Mats at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Evidence That Zetaproteobacteria May Be Restricted to Iron-Oxidizing Marine Systems
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of publically available data encompassing a variety of aquatic habitats indicates that Zetaproteobacteria are rare if an iron source is not readily available and suggests that this organism is likely locally restricted to iron-rich marine environments but may exhibit wide-scale geographic distribution, further underscoring the importance of ZetAProteob bacteria in global iron cycling.
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Studies in Malaysian Rain Forest: I. The Forest on Triassic Sediments in Jengka Forest Reserve
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Diversity Statistics and the Log-Series Model
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Models and statistics for species diversity
R. A. Kempton,L. R. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: There are clear advantages in fitting a single model to describe a series of sets of data—even if this model does not give the best fit to each one—rather than fitting several different models, as has often been suggested, particularly in the literature on succession.
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Log-Series and Log-Normal Parameters as Diversity Discriminants for the Lepidoptera
R. A. Kempton,L. R. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: Fisher, Corbet, and Williams as mentioned in this paper used the logarithmic series as a measure of diversity in tropical butterfly data, but they did not consider the behavior of a in response to environmental difference and change, except in its seasonal cycles.
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The efficient use of function minimization in non-linear maximum-likelihood estimation
TL;DR: Applications to well‐known problems of distribution fitting, quantal responses and least‐squares curve fitting, and sequential minimization and nested minimization can be used to solve particular problems are described.