What is it about?
I describe the basic way to sample almost any organism group to establish a series of biodiversity quality indices (species richness, evenness/dominance, biomass, rarity/commonness and completeness of sample). Fungi are used as an example of a worst case for measuring biodiversity given the cryptic existence and stochastic fruiting. This is the first paper to indicate the concept of biodiversity quality as a preferable way to understand what biodiversity is and how to measure it.
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Why is it important?
How to survey and measure biodiversity in a meaningful way such that statistical inference can be established for almost any taxon.
Perspectives
This is my basic paper establishing methodologies and concepts; there are many example papers following this (beetles, butterflies bryophytes etc.).
Dr Alan Feest
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Establishing Baseline Indices for the Quality of the Biodiversity of Restored Habitats Using a Standardized Sampling Process, Restoration Ecology, March 2006, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100x.2006.00112.x.
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