How taxonomic diversity, community structure, and sample size determine the reliability of higher taxon surrogates

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1216-1225

  Neeson, Thomas M ^a,b   Van Rijn, Itai ^a   Mandelik, Yael ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; Complementarity; Conservation planning; Higher taxa; Surrogate; Taxonomic sufficiency

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEYING; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880163034     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1167.1     Document Type: Article

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