A two-stage probabilistic approach to multiple-community similarity indices

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1178-1186

  Chao, Anne ^a   Jost, Lou ^b   Chiang, S C ^a   Jiang, Y H ^a   Chazdon, Robin L ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Connecticut ^*  (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance data; Beta diversity; Morisita index; NESS index; Shared species; Species overlap

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS;

ABUNDANCE DATA; BETA DIVERSITIES; COMMUNITY IS; COMMUNITY SIMILARITY; MORISITA INDEX; NORMALIZED EXPECTED SPECIES SHARED INDEX; PROBABILISTICS APPROACH; SHARED SPECIES; SIMILARITY INDICES; SPECIES OVERLAP;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; NICHE OVERLAP; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PROBABILITY; RAINFOREST; SIMILARITY INDEX;

ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORISIITA INDEX; NORMALIZED EXPECTED SPECIES SHARED INDEX; PLANT GROWTH; PROBABILITY; RAIN FOREST; SAPLING; SEEDLING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 49649098548     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01010.x     Document Type: Article

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