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Pianka's niche overlap index: a standalone construct

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Ecology

a symmetric index of how much two species share resources, from zero for no shared use to one for identical use.

In ecology, Pianka's niche overlap index refers to a symmetric index of how much two species share resources, from zero for no shared use to one for identical use. This meaning comes from Pianka (1973) in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.[1]

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References

Pianka, E. R. (1973). The Structure of Lizard Communities. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 4(1), 53-74. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.04.110173.000413

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