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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.

Usage

data(SpaccHerb)

Arguments

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.html

Details

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.