Rarefaction and nonrandom spatial dispersion patterns

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-103

  Collins, Michael D ^a,b,c   Simberloff, Daniel ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Sampling; Spatial autocorrelation; Species accumulation curves; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCUMULATION; AUTOCORRELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 59649123274     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0051-y     Document Type: Article

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