The spatial domain matters: Spatially constrained species rarefaction in a Free and Open Source environment

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-69

  Bacaro, Giovanni ^a,b   Rocchini, Duccio ^c   Ghisla, Anne ^c   Marcantonio, Matteo ^a   Neteler, Markus ^c   Chiarucci, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; Free and Open Source software; R statistical environment; Sampling effort; Spatially Constrained Rarefaction curves; Species sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869087093     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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