Predicting unknown species numbers using discovery curves

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1618, 2007, Pages 1651-1658

  Bebber, Daniel P ^a   Marriott, Francis H C ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Harris, Stephen A ^a   Scotland, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ants; Birds; Gymnosperms; Lycophytes; Monilophytes; Mosses

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ANT; BIRD; DATA SET; FERN; GRASS; GYMNOSPERM; MOSS; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TAXONOMY;

ANT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALCULATION; FLOWERING; GRASS; GYMNOSPERM; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; BRYOPHYTA; EQUISETALES; FILICOPHYTA; FORMICIDAE; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE;

EID: 34447320168     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0464     Document Type: Article

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