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SUBMITTER: Gaggiotti OE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050189 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gaggiotti Oscar E OE Chao Anne A Peres-Neto Pedro P Chiu Chun-Huo CH Edwards Christine C Fortin Marie-Josée MJ Jost Lou L Richards Christopher M CM Selkoe Kimberly A KA
Evolutionary applications 20180220 7
Biological diversity is a key concept in the life sciences and plays a fundamental role in many ecological and evolutionary processes. Although biodiversity is inherently a hierarchical concept covering different levels of organization (genes, population, species, ecological communities and ecosystems), a diversity index that behaves consistently across these different levels has so far been lacking, hindering the development of truly integrative biodiversity studies. To fill this important know ...[more]