Multi-stage cluster sampling for estimating average species richness at different spatial grains

Community Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 119-127

  Baffetta, F ^a   Bacaro, G ^a,b   Fattorini, L ^a   Rocchini, D ^a,b   Chiarucci, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b TerraData environmetrics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity monitoring; Design based inference; Horvitz Thompson estimation; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; NATURE RESERVE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAKE MONTEPULCIANO; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34447567050     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.8.2007.1.14     Document Type: Article

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