Weighting Individuals by Reproductive Value in Calculating Species Diversity

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Summary

If the authors happen to sample their community at a time when species A and G have just produced large numbers of newly-hatched young, they will get an inflated idea of the average representation of these two species unless they introduce suitable weighting factors for individuals of different ages.

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Published
1964-05-01
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Weighting, Diversity (politics), Value (mathematics), Reproductive value, Biology

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