Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for beta diversity

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2895-2900

  Kiflawi, Moshe ^a,b   Spencer, Matthew ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive; Beta diversity; Multiplicative; Sampling variance; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 7544237241     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-3058     Document Type: Article

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