The use of replicated plot, line and point sampling for estimating species abundance and ecological diversity

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-370

  Barabesi, L ^a,b   Fattorini, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Department of Statistics ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Diversity index estimation; Jackknife; Line sampling; Plot sampling; Point sampling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; LINE TRANSECT; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0032322210     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009655821836     Document Type: Article

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