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The preceding chapters of this book have dealt primarily with the mechanical questions of calculating diversity indices, measuring abundance and determining sample size. Although the search for methods of measuring diversity is intellectually rewarding it is not a goal in itself. The true value of diversity measures will be determined by whether or not they are empirically useful.
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Magurran, A.E. (1988). The empirical value of diversity measures. In: Ecological Diversity and Its Measurement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7358-0_6
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