Inventory statistics meet big data: complications for estimating numbers of species

We point out complications inherent in biodiversity inventory metrics when applied to large-scale datasets. The number of units of inventory effort (e.g., days of inventory effort) in which a species is detected saturates, such that crucial numbers of detections of rare species approach zero. Any ra...

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Main Authors: Ali Khalighifar, Laura Jiménez, Claudia Nuñez-Penichet, Benedictus Freeman, Kate Ingenloff, Daniel Jiménez-García, Town Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-05-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8872.pdf