Computer intensive methods for controlling bias in a generalized species diversity index

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 37, Issue PART A, 2014, Pages 90-98

  Butturi Gomes, Davi ^a,f   Junior, Miguel Petrere ^b,c   Giacomini, Henrique C ^d   Junior, Paulo De Marco ^e  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c Programa de Pos Graduacao em Sustentabilidade de Ecossistemas Costeiros e Marinhos   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulations; Quadrat sampling; Resampling methods; Shannon Wiener index; Simpson index; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING;

COMPUTER INTENSIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; RESAMPLING METHOD; SIMPSON INDICES; SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY INDEX; SPECIES RICHNESS; WIENER INDEX;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ABUNDANCE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888326547     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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