Biological diversity frontiers in measurement and assessment (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note - 1 - Challenges and opportunities in the measurement and assessment of biological diversity - Brian J. McGill -- - 1.1 - Introduction -- - 1.2 - State of the field -- - 1.3 - What is in this book -- - Acknowledgements -- - pt. I - Basic Measurement Issues -- - 2 - An overview of sampling issues in species diversity and abundance surveys - Norman Mercado-Silva -- - 2.1 - Introduction -- - 2.2 - State of the field -- - 2.2.1 - Setting objectives -- - 2.2.2 - An important partner: the statistician -- - 2.2.3 - What species to sample -- - 2.2.4 - Where to sample -- - 2.2.5 - Bias, sampling error, and precision -- - 2.2.6 - How to sample -- - 2.2.7 - Quantifying the sample -- - 2.2.8 - When to sample -- - 2.2.9 - How many samples to collect -- - 2.2.10 - Comparing information from different surveys -- - 2.2.11 - Preparing for the field -- - 2.3 - Prospectus -- - 2.4 - Key points -- - 3 - Biodiversity monitoring: the relevance of detectability - Stuart E. Newson -- - 3.1 - Introduction -- - 3.2 - State of the field: which biodiversity measure?
3.3 - Detectability: are species counts relevant for monitoring biodiversity? -- - 3.3.1 - Individual detectability -- - 3.3.2 - Estimating individual detectability -- - 3.3.3 - Species detectability -- - 3.4 - Case study: the UK Breeding Bird Survey -- - 3.5 - Discussion -- - 3.6 - Prospectus -- - 3.7 - Key points -- - Acknowledgements -- - pt. II - Diversity -- - 4 - Estimating species richness - Robert K. Colwell -- - 4.1 - Introduction -- - 4.2 - State of the field -- - 4.2.1 - Sampling models for biodiversity data -- - 4.2.2 - The species accumulation curve -- - 4.2.3 - Climbing the species accumulation curve -- - 4.2.4 - Species richness versus species density -- - 4.2.5 - Individual-based rarefaction -- - 4.2.6 - Sample-based rarefaction -- - 4.2.7 - Assumptions of rarefaction -- - 4.2.8 - Estimating asymptotic species richness -- - 4.2.9 - Comparing estimators of asymptotic species richness -- - 4.2.10 - Software for estimating species richness from sample data -- - 4.3 - Prospectus -- - 4.4 - Key points -- - Acknowledgements -- - 5 - Measurement of species diversity - Brian J. McGill -- - 5.1 - Introduction -- - 5.2 - State of the art
7.4.3 - Using species abundance distributions to evaluate change -- - 7.4.4 - Assessing change using biodiversity indexes -- - 7.5 - Measuring change in the rate of change -- - 7.6 - Using temporal change to shed light on community structure -- - 7.7 - Partitioning diversity in space and time -- - 7.8 - Prospectus -- - 7.9 - Key points -- - pt. III - Distribution -- - 8 - Commonness and rarity - Peter A. Henderson -- - 8.1 - Introduction -- - 8.2 - State of the field -- - 8.3 - Commonness and rarity: ecological context -- - 8.4 - Assessing commonness and rarity -- - 8.5 - Prospectus -- - 8.6 - Key points -- - 9 - Species abundance distributions - Brian J. McGill -- - 9.1 - Introduction -- - 9.2 - State of the field -- - 9.2.1 - Visual approaches to SADs -- - 9.2.2 - Parametric approaches to SADs -- - 9.2.3 - Non-parametric approaches to SADs -- - 9.2.4 - Multivariate approaches to SADs -- - 9.3 - Identifying a useful, parsimonious subset of SAD metrics -- - 9.3.1 - Efficiency and bias -- - 9.3.2 - Independence of measures -- - 9.3.3 - Overall assessment of useful, parsimonious metrics of SADs -- - 9.4 - Prospectus -- - 9.5 - Key points -- - Acknowledgements
10 - Fitting and empirical evaluation of models for species abundance distributions - Maria Dornelas -- - 10.1 - Introduction -- - 10.2 - State of the field -- - 10.2.1 - Species abundance models -- - 10.2.2 - Obtaining predicted abundances -- - 10.2.3 - Choosing parameters -- - 10.2.4 - Goodness-of-fit testing -- - 10.2.5 - Model selection -- - 10.3 - Prospectus -- - 10.3.1 - Sampling theory for species abundance models -- - 10.3.2 - Parameter estimation -- - 10.3.3 - Goodness-of-fit testing -- - 10.3.4 - Model selection -- - 10.3.5 - Conclusions -- - 10.4 - Key points -- - 11 - Species occurrence and occupancy - Fangliang He -- - 11.1 - Introduction -- - 11.2 - State of the field -- - 11.2.1 - Occupancy-area relationships -- - 11.2.2 - Occupancy-abundance relationships -- - 11.2.3 - Species occupancy distributions -- - 11.3 - Prospectus -- - 11.4 - Key points -- - Acknowledgements -- - 12 - Measuring the spatial structure of biodiversity - Brian J. McGill -- - 12.1 - Introduction -- - 12.1.1 - What spatial structure is of interest? -- - 12.1.2 - Number of variables recorded -- pattern or association? -- - 12.1.3 - Types of data