Bias, precision, and accuracy of four measures of species richness

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 824-834

  Hellmann, Jessica J ^a,b   Fowler, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological diversity; Bootstrap estimator; First and second order; Jackknife estimator; Monte Carlo simulation; Quadrat sampling; Resampling procedures; Sample size determination; Simple richness estimator; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033178306     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0824:BPAAOF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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