Hydrobiological Journal

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2005, Volume41

Issue 2

117 pages

DOI: 10.1615/HydrobJ.v41.i2

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T. Ye. Pavlyuk
Russian Research Institute of the Integrated Use and Protection of Water Recourses Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

Some principles of the use of diversity of communities in assessment of quality of the environment, and water quality in particular, are considered. It is justified the use of the biodiversity parameters in three aspects. The first is connected with the use of richness of elements of a system, for example, a number of species, trophic groups, taxocenes, size groups, etc. The second aspect uses the evenness values, relative abundance of elements of the system, degree of domination of the species, life forms, trophic groups, etc. The third aspect is based on two-component diversity while taking into account a hypothesis of average disturbances.

DOI: 10.1615/HydrobJ.v41.i2.10 Download article, 3-16 pages

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