The Measurement of Diversity

By Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Yongsheng Xu. 2001

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Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

Effects of forest management practices on the diversity of ground-occurring beetles in mixed northern hardwood forests of the Great Lakes Region (2000, methodology): “However, Simpson's index suggests carabid diversity was higher in old growth than managed forests, and that the opposite trend occurs for other families of groundoccurring beetles.”
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on plant diversity and community structure of a sacred grove in Meghalaya, northeast India (2004, methodology): “…and diversity were determined by computing the index of species richness (Margalef 1958), similarity index (Sørensen 1948), Shannon diversity index (Shannon and Weaver 1949), the importance value index (IVI) (Phillips 1959), Simpson dominance index (Simpson 1949) and evenness index (Pielou 1966).”
Maximizing diversity in biology and beyond (2015, neutral): “Ecologists began to propose quantitative definitions of biological diversity in the mid-twentieth century [23,24], setting in motion more than fifty years of heated debate, dozens of further proposed diversity measures, hundreds of scholarly papers, at least one book devoted to the subject [25], and”
A unified index to measure ecological diversity and species rarity (2008, background): “The most common measures of biodiversity (or diversity) are the Shannon-Wiener index (H; Shannon and Weaver 1949), which is derived from information theory, and the Simpson index (D; Simpson 1949), which is interpreted from probability theory.”
Temporal changes in the phytoplankton community structure in a tropical and eutrophic reservoir (Barra Bonita, S.P.—Brazil) (2002, background): “Specific dominance, as defined by Simpson (Simpson, 1949), and richness of species were evaluated based on the number of species found during the study.”
Places: A 10 Million Image Database for Scene Recognition (2018, methodology): “Here, we propose to use a measure inspired by the Simpson index of diversity [25].”
Effects of forest fragmentation on species richness and composition of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Brachinidae) in urban landscapes (2008, methodology): “Abundance was measured based on the number of individuals collected in the 12 traps, species richness was measured based on the observed number of species, and dominance was measured using Simpson’s index (l; Simpson 1949).”
Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks (2009, background): “The function Yi(k) has been extensively used in several fields as a standard indicator of concentration for more than half a century: in ecology (23), economics (24, 25), physics (26), and recently in the complex networks literature where it is known as the disparity measure (17).”
Experimental interrogation of the path dependence and stochasticity of protein evolution using phage-assisted continuous evolution (2013, positive): “To quantify the diversity within each population, we used the inverse Simpson index (ISI) (4).”
Combining richness and abundance into a single diversity index using matrix analogues of Shannon's and Simpson's indices (2006, neutral): “Both measures predate the publication of the oft cited papers by Shannon (1948) and Simpson (1949) .”
Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis (2004, background): “Niche width is usually expressed by calculating the heterogeneity within a set of ecological measurements, often borrowing indices derived as measures of evenness and richness (Shannon & Weaver 1949; Simpson 1949; Margalef 1958).”