On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement o...
On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity
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Functional diversity is at the heart of current research in the field of conservation biology. Most of the indices that measure diversity depend on variables that have various statistical types (e.g. circular, fuzzy, ordinal) and that go through a matrix of distances among species. We show how to compute such distances from a generalization of Gowe...
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On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20542551
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20542551
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0030-1299
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1600-0706
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10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.16668.x
