Subtitle:

Estimating species numbers by extrapolation. 1 ; Comparing the performance of various estimators using large model communities

Contributor:

Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Ecology

Publisher:

Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Ecology. Publishing Office

Place of publishing:

Dziekanów Leśny

Description:

Pages 271-291 : illustrations ; 27 cm ; Bibliographical references (pages 289-291)

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

A computer program was constructed that simulates large species assemblages (28 to 997 species) with various species-rank order distributions and degrees of aggregation of the species. From these model assemblages random samples were taken to study the performance of 14 estimators of species diversity. For 6 of the estimators correction factors are developed. In sufficiently large samples (more than 2/3 of the true species number (TS) sampled) a corrected second order jackknife estimator gave the best results. 18% of the estimates ranged outside TS ± 10%. If fewer species are represented in the sample (but more than 1/3 TS) two newly developed data analytical estimators performed better. Between 23 and 24%, respectively, of their estimates ranged outside TS ± 20%. Crucial to the performance of all of the estimators is the sample size. The minimum sample size for an estimator to work has to contain at least 1/3 of the total species number.

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Relation:

Polish Journal of Ecology

Volume:

47

Issue:

3

Start page:

271

End page:

291

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Article

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:106123 ; ISSN 1505-2249

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MiIZ PAN, call no. P.2840 ; click here to follow the link

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eng

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