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Preface vii // Chapter 1 Introduction: measurement of (biological) // diversity 1 // What has changed in the last 15 years ? 4 // Biodiversity, biological diversity, and ecological diversity 6 // What this book is about... 9 // ... and what it is not about 10 // Assumptions of biodiversity measurement 11 // Spatial scale and biodiversity measurement 12 // Plan of the book 15 // Summary 17 // Chapter 2 The commonness, and rarity, of species 18 // Methods of plotting species abundance data 21 // Species abundance models 27 // Statistical models 28 // Goodness of fit tests 43 // Biological (or theoretical) models 45 // Other approaches 58 // Fitting niche apportionment models to empirical data 61 // General recommendations on investigating patterns of species abundance 64 // Rarity 66 // Summary 71 // vi // Contents // Chapters How many species? 72 // Measures of species richness 74 // Surrogates of species 97 // How many species are there on earth? 98 // Summary 98 // Chapter 4 An index of diversity ... 100 // Diversity measures 102 // "Parametric" measures of diversity 102 // "Nonparametric" measures of diversity 106 // Taxonomic diversity 121 // Ftmctional diversity 128 // Body size and biological diversity 129 // Summary 130 // Chapters Comparative studies of diversity 131 // Sampling matters 132 // Comparison of communities 143 // Diversity measures and environmental assessment 153 Summary 160 // Chapter 6 Diversity in space (and time) 162 // Measuring ß diversity 167 // Estimating the true number of shared species 176 // ß diversity and scale: practical implications 177 // Comparing communities 179 // Turnover in time 182 // Summary 184 // Chapter? No prospect of an end 185 // Some challenges 186 // The biodiversity toolkit 189 // Conclusion 192 // References 194 // Worked examples 216 // Index 248

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