Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size.

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Summary

An integrated sampling, rarefaction, and extrapolation methodology to compare species richness of a set of communities based on samples of equal completeness (as measured by sample coverage) instead of equal size is proposed.

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2012-12-01
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Keywords

Rarefaction (ecology), Extrapolation, Completeness (order theory), Species richness, Stopping rule

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