Species-Abundance Diversity: from Biodiversity Indices to Multivariate Analyses and Computer-Assisted Simulations

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Authors	JARKOVSKÝ Jiří NÉMETHOVÁ Danka KUBÍK Vratislav DUŠEK Ladislav
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Proceedings of the 3rd Internationl Summer School on Computational Biology
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Ecology
Keywords	diversity; ecology; multivariate statistics; diversity indices; clustering; ordination
Description	The biodiversity is the key concept of ecology and its understanding and analysis is crucial for any ecological research. There are three main approaches to answer the questions on biodiversity: diversity indices, species abundance models and multivariate analysis of biological communities. The analysis of biodiversity data is a very complex task and requires adopting several various methods of their analysis (diversity indices, species abundance models, multivariate analysis). Only the combination of methods supported by the ecological knowledge of species and underlying processes is the correct way of biodiversity data analysis.
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