Ecological diversity: measuring the unmeasurable

AJ Daly, JM Baetens, B De Baets - Mathematics, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Diversity is a concept central to ecology, and its measurement is essential for any study of
ecosystem health. But summarizing this complex and multidimensional concept in a single …

Defining the core microbiome in corals' microbial soup

A Hernandez-Agreda, RD Gates, TD Ainsworth - Trends in microbiology, 2017‏ - cell.com
Corals are considered one of the most complex microbial biospheres studied to date,
hosting thousands of bacterial phylotypes in species-specific associations. There are …

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

A Chao, NJ Gotelli, TC Hsieh, EL Sander… - Ecological …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying and assessing changes in biological diversity are central aspects of many
ecological studies, yet accurate methods of estimating biological diversity from sampling …

Coverage‐based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

A Chao, L Jost - Ecology, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
We propose an integrated sampling, rarefaction, and extrapolation methodology to compare
species richness of a set of communities based on samples of equal completeness (as …

A metagenomic approach to characterization of the vaginal microbiome signature in pregnancy

K Aagaard, K Riehle, J Ma, N Segata, TA Mistretta… - PloS one, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
While current major national research efforts (ie, the NIH Human Microbiome Project) will
enable comprehensive metagenomic characterization of the adult human microbiota, how …

[كتاب][B] Measuring biological diversity

AE Magurran - 2013‏ - books.google.com
This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure
biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to …

Entropy and diversity

L Jost - Oikos, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Entropies such as the Shannon–Wiener and Gini–Simpson indices are not themselves
diversities. Conversion of these to effective number of species is the key to a unified and …

[كتاب][B] Paleontological data analysis

Ø Hammer, DAT Harper - 2024‏ - books.google.com
PALEONTOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS An up-to-date edition of the indispensable guide to
analysing paleontological data Paleontology has developed in recent decades into an …

On the use of diversity measures in longitudinal sequencing studies of microbial communities

BD Wagner, GK Grunwald, GO Zerbe… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Identification of the majority of organisms present in human-associated microbial
communities is feasible with the advent of high throughput sequencing technology. As …

Measuring diversity: the importance of species similarity

T Leinster, CA Cobbold - Ecology, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Realistic measures of biodiversity should reflect not only the relative abundances of species,
but also the differences between them. We present a natural family of diversity measures …