A new model to describe the relationship between species richness and sample size

In the sampling of species richness, the number of newly found species declines as increase of sample size, and the number of distinct species tends to an upper asymptote as sample size tends to the infinity. This leads to a curve of species richness vs. sample size. In present study, I follow my pr...

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Main Author: WenJun Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 2017-03-01
Series:Computational Ecology and Software
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Online Access:http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/articles/2017-7(1)/relationship-between-species-richness-and-sample-size.pdf