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EVENNESS

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Charles François (2004). EVENNESS, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1185.
Collection International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year 2004
Vol. (num.) 2(1)
ID 1185
Object type Methodology or model

A measure of diversity in some defined space

C. WILLS writes: “If a minority of species in a quadrat are common and the rest are rare, it is considered to have low evenness. But if, in another quadrat with the same number of species, all the species are equally common, then the quadrat's evenness is high” (1996, p.42)

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