Testing the performance of beta diversity measures based on incidence data: The robustness to undersampling

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1081-1090

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b,c   Borges, Paulo A V ^a   Veech, Joseph A ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Arthropods; Beta diversity; Completeness; Sampling; Similarity indices

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA;

EID: 70349915892     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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