Measurement of "Overlap" in Comparative Ecological Studies

作者：Henry S. Horn · 发表于：The American Naturalist · 年份：1966 · 被引用次数：1641 · 研究领域：Land Use and Ecosystem Services、Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis

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.