Extrapolating inventory results into biodiversity estimates and the importance of stopping rules

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 95-105

  Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Slade, Norman A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Extrapolation; Fauna size; Inventories; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002675114     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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