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Diversity (politics)EcologyGeographyEcosystem diversityBiodiversityBiologySociologyAnthropology
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Anne E. Magurran
(1988).
Ecological Diversity and Its Measurement.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7358-0
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