Species diversity and richness program and its usage for analyzing the structure of biological communities

  • A. V. Matsyura Мелитопольский государственный педагогический университет

Abstract

The article is devoted to the usage of special application for the communities’ biological diversity estimation. The softwaremain capabilities, indexes and field of application are under consideration.

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2005-10-07
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