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SUBMITTER: Morrison ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10603011 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morrison Maike L ML Rosenberg Noah A NA
Journal of mathematical biology 20231026 5
The measurement of diversity is a central component of studies in ecology and evolution, with broad uses spanning multiple biological scales. Studies of diversity conducted in population genetics and ecology make use of analogous concepts and even employ equivalent mathematical formulas. For the Shannon entropy statistic, recent developments in the mathematics of diversity in population genetics have produced mathematical constraints on the statistic in relation to the frequency of the most freq ...[more]