Estimating species accumulation curves and diversity indices

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 761-774

  Mao, Chang Xuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Poisson mixture; Rarefaction; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547532146     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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