This section contains a collection of classical theoretical and methodological papers on diversity that are generally unsuitable for stamp collectors. The section is dedicated to the work of Ganapati Patil and Charles Taillie (1982) whose extraordinary value has not been recognized for too long.

Faith, D.P. (1992) Conservation evaluation and phylogenic diversity. Biological Conservation 61: 1-10

Hill, M.O. (1973) Diversity and evenness: a unifying notation and its consequences. Ecology 54: 427-431

Hurlbert, S.H. (1971) The non-concept of species diversity: a critique and alternative parameters. Ecology 52: 577-586

Juhász-Nagy, P. (1993) Notes on compositional diversity. Hydrobiologia 249: 173-182

Patil, G.P. and Taillie, C. (1982) Diversity as a concept and its measurement. Journal of the American Statistical Association 77: 548-567

Peet, R.K. (1974) The measurement of species diversity. Annual Reviews in Ecology and Systematics 5: 285-307

Rao, C.R. (1982) Diversity and dissimilarity coefficients: a unified approach. Theoretical Population Biology 21: 24-43

Simpson, E.H. (1949) Measurement of diversity. Nature 163: 688

Smith, W. and Grassle, F. (1977) Sampling properties of a family of diversity measures. Biometrics 33: 283-92

Solomon, D.L. (1979) A comparative approach to species diversity. In: J.F. Grassle, G.P. Patil, W.K. Smith and C. Taillie (Editors), Ecological Diversity in Theory and Practice. International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, MD, pp. 29-35

Solow, A.R. and Polasky, S. (1994) Measuring biological diversity. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 1: 95-107

Taillie, C. (1979) Species equitability: A comparative approach. In: J.F. Grassle, G.P. Patil, W.K. Smith and C. Taillie (Editors), Ecological Diversity in Theory and Practice. International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, MD, pp. 51-62

Vane-Wright R.I., Humphries, C.J. and Williams, P.M. (1991) What to protect: systematics and the agony of choice. Biological Conservation 55: 235-254

Warwick, R.M. and Clarke, K.R. (1995) New ‘biodiversity’ measures reveal a decrease in taxonomic distinctness with increasing stress. Marine Ecology Progress Series 129: 301-305

Weitzman, M.L. (1992) On diversity. Quarterly Journal of Economics 107: 363–405

Whittaker, R.H. (1972) Evolution and measurement of species diversity. Taxon 21: 213-251

Wilson, M.W. and Shmida, A. (1984) Measuring beta diversity with presence-absence data. Journal of Ecology 72: 1055-1064