Biodiversity assessment in incomplete inventories: leaf litter ant communities in several types of Bornean rain forest.

Biodiversity assessment of tropical taxa is hampered by their tremendous richness, which leads to large numbers of singletons and incomplete inventories in survey studies. Species estimators can be used for assessment of alpha diversity, but calculation of beta diversity is hampered by pseudo-turnov...

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Main Authors: Martin Pfeiffer, Dirk Mezger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3398027?pdf=render