1966/09/01 by Henry S. Horn · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Land Use and Ecosystem Services #Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis #Ecology #Abundance (ecology) #Habitat #Preference #Geography #Relative species abundance #Biology #Statistics #Mathematics
paper · doi:10.1086/282436
openalex publication_date 1966/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
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.