SPECIES-DIVERSITY AND PATTERN-DIVERSITY IN STUDY OF ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
SPECIES-DIVERSITY AND PATTERN-DIVERSITY IN STUDY OF ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-5193(66)90133-0
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发表时间:
1966-01-01
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2
通讯作者:
PIELOU, EC
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PIELOU, EC
A measurable property of any collection of organisms containing more than one species is its "species-diversity." Methods of measuring species-diversity based on the information content of a collection are reviewed. A collection consisting of a community of sessile organisms, such as terrestrial plants, also has "pattern-diversity." The pattern-diversity of a community is high when the individuals of the various species are thoroughly mingled so that several species are usually present in any small sub-area; it is low if the species are segregated so that small sub-areas are likely to contain individuals of only a few of the species. A method of measuring pattern-diversity is proposed. The changes that occurred in both species- and pattern-diversity, during periods of five or ten years, in young dense communities of forest trees were observed. It was found that the natural thinning resulting from competition among the trees caused an increase in pattern- diversity.