On the use of species-area curves to detect the effects of sample size

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1985-1990

  Lyman, R Lee ^a   Ames, Kenneth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rarefaction; Regression; Sample to redundancy; Sample size effect; Species area curve

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 35448961183     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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