Estimating the effectiveness of further sampling in species inventories

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1239-1249

  Keating, Kim A ^a   Quinn, James F ^b   Ivie, Michael A ^a   Ivie, LaDonna L ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beetle inventories; Cost effectiveness; Estimation methodologies; Estimators of effectiveness; Glacier National Park (USA); Negative binomial estimation; Sampling effectiveness; Species inventories; Species abundance distribution; Vascular plant inventories

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES INVENTORY;

EID: 0031793522     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[1239:ETEOFS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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