SpaccHerb:
Species accumulation curve
Description
One index of diversity is species richness i.e. total number of species of a taxon present in a locality. To estimate richness, it is convenient to go on counting randomly selected individuals and recording their species names. An accumulation curve has total number of individuals or quadrats on X-axis and accumulated number of species on Y axis.
Format
A data frame with 922 observations on the following 4 variables.
Serial_Number
- Serial number
Quadrat_Number
- Quadrat number
Species_Name
- Species name
Individuals
- Number of individuals
Source
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.htmlDetails
Generating species accumulation data by (a) quadrat, (b) number of individuals. Fitting a nonlinear (saturating) model to these data to arrive at estimate of saturating value.