From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6989 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Leinster Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Paper: Measuring diversity Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:07:31 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Tom Leinster NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319459458 7725 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2011 12:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:30:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Oct 24 14:30:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RIJg1-0006mf-5q for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:60546) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RIJeb-0001iZ-BD; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:29:21 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIJeZ-00029Q-Mz for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:29:19 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6989 Archived-At: Dear all, At CT2010 in Genova, I gave a talk on numerical invariants of enriched categories and their applications to measuring diversity. A paper giving some background is now available: Tom Leinster and Christina Cobbold, Measuring diversity: the importance of species similarity. _Ecology_, in press. http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~tl/mdiss.pdf As the name of the journal suggests, it was written for ecologists - but it should be accessible to mathematicians too. Best wishes, Tom [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]