An incidence-based richness estimator for quadrats sampled without replacement

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2052-2060

  Shen, Tsung Jen ^a   He, Fangliang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimate; Modified beta distribution; Presence absence; Quadrat sampling; Richness estimator; Sampling without replacement; Zero truncated binomial distribution

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICS; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 54549105240     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1526.1     Document Type: Article

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