Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature
- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Community Ecology
- Vol. 9 (1) , 121-123
- https://doi.org/10.1556/comec.9.2008.1.14
Abstract
Rarefaction has long represented a powerful tool for detecting species richness and its variation across spatial scales. Some authors recently reintroduced the mathematical expression for calculating sample-based rarefaction curves. While some of them did not claim any advances, others presented this formula as a new analytical solution. We provide evidence about formulations of the sample-based rarefaction formula older than those recently proposed in ecological literatureKeywords
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