Measuring and Estimating Species Richness, Species Diversity, and Biotic Similarity from Sampling Data

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 195-211

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Chao, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biodiversity; Biotic similarity; Functional diversity; Hill numbers; Incidence; Nonparametric estimators; Phylogenetic diversity; Rarefaction; Species abundance distributions; Species accumulation curve; Species diversity; Species richness; Taxonomic diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042822706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00424-X     Document Type: Chapter

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