RE: NANFA-L-- Diversity Indicies

Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus at hotmail.com)
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:45:20 -0400

You got it, Jan! Hurlbert spotted the creep of meaningless jargon.

--Bruce Stallsmith
still on the Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A

>I have not read Hurlbert's "non-concept" paper in a couple of deacades now,
>but I do not think he was questioning the concept of diversity as variety
>(or
>uncertainty, or information) but rather the concept of diversity as a
>dimensionless, unitless value.
>
>
>- Jan Hoover
> Vicksburg, MS
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