Estimating the number of shared species in two communities

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 227-246

  Chao, Anne ^a   Hwang, Wen Han ^a   Chen, Y C ^a   Kuo, C Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Wild Bird Society of Hsin Chu   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coefficient of covariation; Coefficient of variation; Community similarity; Heterogeneity; Multinomial; Overlap; Sample coverage; Shared species

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034387298     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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