Estimating species pools for a single ecological assemblage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The species pool concept was formulated over the past several decades and has since played an important role in explaining multi-scale ecological patterns. Previous statistical methods were developed to identify species pools based on broad-scale species range maps or community similarity computed from data collected from many areas. No statistical method is available for estimating species pools for a single local community (sampling area size may be very small as ≤ 1 km²). In this study, based on limited local abundance information, we developed a simple method to estimate the area size and richness of a species pool for a local ecological community. The method involves two steps. In the first step, parameters from a truncated negative trinomial model charac

SUBMITTER: Shen TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5741966 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature