Quantifying biodiversity: Procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 379-391

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Colwell, Robert K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Asymptotic richness; Biodiversity; Category subcategory ratios; Rarefaction; Richness estimation; Species density; Species richness; Taxon sampling; Taxonomic ratios

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING BIAS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0034870192     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00230.x     Document Type: Review

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