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1 Docente Programa de Biología Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Militar “Nueva Granada”, claudiap@umng.edu.co
I dp present an example of the most com- Donde: C es el número de especies que es-
mon beta and gamma richness indices. This tu- tán presentes en las dos muestras y S1 corres-
torial article complement the article presented ponde al número de especies, en el sitio 1 y S2
in the previous volume, about alpha richness. al n´mero de especies en el sitio 2.
Keywords: Beta diversity, beta richness,
gamma diversity, gamma richness, similarity in- Morisita - Horn
dices.
INTRODUCCIÓN
Morisita – Horn
Alfa de Fisher
Este índice esta discutido en Polo 2007
Especie1 1 1 1
Especie2 1 1 1 1
Especie3 1 1 1
Especie4 1 1 1
Especie5 1 1 1
Especie6 1 1 1 2
Especie7 1 1 1 1
Especie8 1 1 1
Especie9 1 1 1 1
Especie10 1 1 1 1 4
S 5 4 2 3
5 7
3.5
Whitakker
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CORRECCIÓN AL ARTÍCULO:
CORRECTION TO ARTICLE:
MOST COMMON INDICES IN BIOLOGY. FIRST PART
Presento fe de errata para alguno de los cálculos presentados en:
Polo Urrea, C. S. 2007 Índices más comunes en biología. Revista Facultad de Ciencias Básicas.
III (1): 197-213.
Agradezco a los estudiantes de Ecología del primer semestre del 2008, quienes en a través de
la guía de laboratorio, detectaron los errores.
Tabla 1 Corrección de la Tabla 1 de Polo 2007
Especie A
Especie B
Especie C
Especie D
Especie E
Especie F