comparing rarefaction curves

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Statistical studies have produced a large number of estimators of the asymptotic number of “classes” for samples of classified objects (reviewed by Although extrapolation is inherently more risky than interpolation, some of these asymptotic estimators have so far performed well when tested on exhaustively censused, benchmark datasets in which the species sampling curve reaches a stable asymptote [such as the tropical seedbank dataset of Of course, aside from testing estimators, there is no reason to use an estimator for a dataset that reaches a steady asymptote. One cannot simply divide the number of species found by the number of individuals sampled in order to correct for different sample sizes.

A “hybrid” between individual‐based and sample‐based taxon sampling curves is produced by the “Sample‐ and individual‐based data sets are sometimes treated interchangeably in statistical analyses.

Note that it make no sense to compare diversities of individual plots across different standardisations (e.g.

For example, depending upon the scale of interest or the focus of a hypothesis (in the sense of These two dichotomies jointly define four kinds of taxon sampling curves, as shown in Although the four kinds of taxon sampling curves in Comparing species or higher‐taxon richness without reference to a taxon sampling curve is problematic at best.

For invertebrate and microbial assemblages everywhere and for many taxa in tropical habitats, such asymptotes may never be reached (e.g.

The package Point comparisons of rarefaction curves can be problematic because diversity of all samples dimin- Raw species richness counts, which are used to create accumulation curves, can only be compared when the species richness has reached a clear One can plot the number of species as a function of either the number of individuals sampled or the number of samples taken. Here we emphasize the distinction between taxon re-sampling curves and normalization by strictly adhering to the terms rarefying or rarefied counts when referring to the normalization procedure, respecting the original definition for rarefaction. Important are also confidence intervals (C.I., envelopes around each curve): only diversity estimates with non-overlapping C.I. ��

Departamento de Biología y Geología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/ Tulipán s/n, E-28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain. In (a), an old‐growth and a second‐growth forest stand are compared.

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the seamless sample-size- and coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation sampling curves. not the number of their individuals) were considered and summed across all 25 subplots within the locality).

Localities very much differ by the number of individuals, which is why the rarefaction curves have rather different length; additionally, by default, the function calculates and plots also extrapolated part of rarefaction curve (up to double the number of individuals, dashed line).

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In biogeography, category–subcategory taxonomic ratios have been repeatedly used and abused. Rarefaction does not provide an estimate of asymptotic richness, so it cannot be used to Newton, Adrian C. Forest Ecology and Preservation: A Handbook of Techniques.

To characterize the species diversity of an assemblage, we propose using three integrated rarefaction/extrapolation curves based on the first three Hill numbers: species richness, the exponential of Shannon entropy (which we refer to as Shannon diversity), and the inverse Simpson concentra- tion (which we refer to as Simpson diversity).

In (b), species richness in treefall gap quadrats is compared with richness in non‐gap (forest matrix) quadrats.

In support of their inference that tree species richness does not differ between gaps and non‐gaps, Using the species‐per‐individual ratio to correct for unequal numbers of individuals is invalid because it assumes that richness increases linearly with abundance – true only for the idealized case of extreme unevenness, in which one species is maximally dominant (The same problem affects the inverse ratio, individuals per species (e.g.