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Basic Theoretical Arguments Advocating Jackknife-2 as Usually being the Most Appropriate Nonparametric Estimator of Total Species Richness

Jean Béguinot · Annual Research & Review in Biology · 2016

A lot of nonparametric estimators of the number of unrecorded species after partial sampling of an assemblage of species, have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, these different types of estimators provides substantially divergent predictions. While empirical compari...