A tribute to Claude Shannon (1916-2001) and a plea for more rigorous use of species richness, species diversity and the 'Shannon-Wiener' Index

By I. Spellerberg, P. Fedor. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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• The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis (2016, background): “These are the most commonly used measures of soil microbial diversity in agricultural studies (Spellerberg and Fedor, 2003).”
• A portfolio perspective on entrepreneurship and economic development (2015, neutral): “…(Alesina et al. 2004; Wolfson 1994) and biology (alpha, beta, gamma, Simpson’s Diversity Index, Species Richness Index) (Whittaker 1960; Alatalo 1981; Spellerberg and Fedor 2003), our typology of entrepreneurial ventures provides a rudimentary diversity measure for entrepreneurial ecosystems.”