Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity is the first book to provide comprehensive
coverage of standard methods for biodiversity sampling of amphibians, with information on …

An exact expression is given for the jackknife estimate of the number of species in a
community and for the variance of this number when quadrat sampling procedures are used …

The method of jackknifing is introduced for estimating an index of diversity and is illustrated
with tree data. The method yields approximately normally distributed jackknife estimates and …

Quantitative and qualitative samples of amphibian and lizard faunas were taken from forest
litter in Costa Rica and compared with similar samples collected in Borneo, the Philippines …

I examined the diet of 867 anurans of 58 species from Cuzco Amazónico, Peru. A total of
6393 prey items in 62 prey categories was identified from the 610 anurans (70%) with prey …

Although several investigators have discussed different herpetofaunal sampling
methodologies and their effectiveness, few have quantitatively examined which methods are …

Three theories of explanation for the observed patterns of species abundance in samples
from animal and plant communities are reviewed. These are the nichepreemption …

Comparisons among three forest stands at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica were
made of biomass, abundance, richness, relative abundance, evenness and species overlap …

物种多样性测度是(群落的) 总体参数, 它们常常是未知的, 需要通过抽样将它们估计出来, 因此,
必须了解估计量的抽样性质. 本文对与一些多样性测度的均值, 方差的估计和假设检验以及大 …

Describimos tres especies nuevas de ranas del sotobosque de la cuenca Amazónica
Ecuatoriana: Pristimantis achuar, Pristimantis altamnis y Pristimantis kichwarum. Estas …