Resampling estimators of species richness from presence-absence data: Why they don't work

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Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 3-17

  D'Alessandro, Luana ^a   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Design based estimation; Jackknife; Species observed; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891441884     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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