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Measurement of "Overlap" in Comparative Ecological Studies
The American Naturalist · 1966 · Vol. 100(914) · pp. 419–424
Abstract
Objective, empirical measures of overlap between samples of items distributed proportionally into various qualitative categories are presented and reviewed. These indices of overlap, derived from either probability or information theory, should prove useful to the ecologist in comparative studies of diet, habitat preference, seasonal patterns of abundance, faunal lists, or similar data.
Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesSustainability and Ecological Systems AnalysisEcologyAbundance (ecology)HabitatPreferenceGeographyRelative species abundanceBiologyStatisticsMathematics
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