BAT - Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 232-236

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b   Rigal, François ^b   Carvalho, José C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Biodiversity estimation; Diversity partition; Extrapolation; Nonparametric estimators; Sampling bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922415036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12310     Document Type: Article

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