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A number of indices of community dissimilarity based on the species diversity measures have been proposed during the last three decades (Margalef 1956, 1957; Kohn 1959; MacArthur 1965; Horn 1966; Glowaciński and Järvinen 1975; Järvinen and Väisänen 1976). Each of them is measuring the wrong quantity if the value of diversity in a particular sample is higher than in a pooled sample. Simple corrections are suggested to avoid this shortcoming.
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Rejmánek, M. Corrections to the indices of community dissimilarity based on species diversity measures. Oecologia 48, 290–291 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347979
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