An empirical method for inferring species richness from samples

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-138

  Murtaugh, Paul A ^a   Birkes, David S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Diversity; Multinomial; Resampling; Taxon richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644814200     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.755     Document Type: Article

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