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Description: |
xxiii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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General Note: |
Rev. versions of papers presented at satellite meetings held in 1977 and 1978 in various locations in conjunction with the Second International Congress of Ecology held in Jerusalem during Sept. 1978. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-353) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: An overview of diversity / G.P. Patil and C. Taillie -- A comparative approach to species diversity / Daniel L. Solomon -- Some basic concepts of ecological equitability / S. Engen -- Species equitability : a comparative approach / C. Taillie -- Diversity, entropy, and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium / C. Taillie and G.P. Patil -- Toward a unified approach to the study of species diversity / Robert K. Colwell -- Species abundance, diversity, and environmental predictability / B. Dennis and G.P. Patil -- Application of the generalized jackknife to Shannon's measure of information used as an index of diversity / J.E. Adams and E.D. McCune -- Comparing diversity measures in sampled communities / J.F. Heltshe and D.W. Bitz -- Estimates of species diversity from multiple samples / John A. Hendrickson Jr. -- Rarefaction as a distribution-free method of expressing and estimating diversity / Daniel Simberloff -- Measures of diversity with unbiased estimates / Woollcott Smith, J. Frederick Grassle, and David Kravitz -- On the relationship between ecological and physico-chemical water quality parameters : a case study at the Guanabara Bay, Rio De Janeiro / Renato G. Flores Jr., Marcus Kurtenback Barreto, and Helio Ramos Da Costa -- The effects of increased water temperature on the diversity of periphyton / Richard Moncreiff and Stephanie Perrin -- Measurements and relationships of plant species diversity in Mediterranean shrublands and woodlands / Z. Naveh and R.H. Whittaker -- Biomonitoring, species diversity indices, and taxonomy / Vincent H. Resh -- A comparison of species diversity indices in Trichoptera communities / John O. Solem -- Diversity as an indicator of pollution : cautionary results from microcosm experiments / Woollcott Smith, Victoria R. Gibson, L. Susan Brown-Leger, and J. Frederick Grassle -- Colonization of polychaetous annelids in the intertidal zone of a dredged material island in north Florida / C.B. Subrahmanyam and W.L. Kruczynski -- Competitor diversity and chromosomal variation in Drosophila pseudoobscura / Charles E. Taylor and Cindra Condra -- Community composition and diversity analysis in a marine zooplankton survey / B. Dennis and O. Rossi -- A bibliography of literature on ecological diversity and related methodology / B. Dennis, G.P. Patil, O. Rossi, S. Stehman, and C. Taillie. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Ecological diversity in theory and practice. Fairland, Md. : International Co-operative Pub. House, ©1979 (OCoLC)647477034 |
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Series Added Entry: |
Statistical ecology series ; v. 6. |