A Novel Method to Handle the Effect of Uneven Sampling Effort in Biodiversity Databases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pardo, Iker ^a   Pata, María P ^a   Gómez, Daniel ^a   García, María B ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GEOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN;

EID: 84872250867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052786     Document Type: Article

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