Comparative performance of species richness estimation methods

Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-405

  Walther, B A ^a,c   Morand, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Diversity; Estimation methods; Jackknife; Sampling methods; Species accumulation curves; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; PARASITOLOGY; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031925358     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097002230     Document Type: Article

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