Diagnosing the uncertainty of taxa relative abundances derived from count data

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 114-120

  Heslop, D ^a   De Schepper, S ^a   Proske, U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblage data; Confidence region; Diversity index; Multinomial distribution; Relative abundance; Taxa

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; INDEX METHOD; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955746093     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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