The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections

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Summary

Information content may be used as a measure of the diversity of a many-species biological collection whereby the sample size is progressively increased by addition of new quadrats and the mean increment in total diversity that results from enlarging the sample still more provides an estimate of the Diversity per individual in the whole population.

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1966-12-01
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Quadrat, Sample (material), Diversity (politics), Population, Sample size determination

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