Effect of sampling scale on the assessment of epiphytic bacterial populations

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Summary

Populations were highly variable among sampling units at every scale examined, suggesting that there is no optimal scale at which sample variance is reduced and scaling populations on a per gram basis does not provide a useful means of comparing population estimates from samples taken at different scales.

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Published
1995-05-01
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Keywords

Sampling (signal processing), Biology, Statistics, Sample size determination, Population

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