Evaluation of species richness estimators based on quantitative performance measures and sensitivity to patchiness and sample grain size

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-41

  Willie, Jacob ^a,b   Petre, Charles Albert ^a,c   Tagg, Nikki ^a   Lens, Luc ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diversity; Forest understory herbs; Patchiness; Sample grain size; Sampling effort; Species richness estimators

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; PATCHINESS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN FOREST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; UNDERSTORY;

CAMEROON;

EID: 84865988849     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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