Simultaneous inference on diversity of biological communities

Tonio Battista and Stefano Antonio Gattone
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Tonio Battista: Universita “G. d’Annunzio”
Stefano Antonio Gattone: Universita “G. d’Annunzio”

Statistical Methods & Applications, 2004, vol. 13, issue 1, No 9, 138 pages

Abstract: Abstract. In environmental statistics, surveys on the structure of biological communities are generally carried out by focusing on diversity indexes. A more complete analysis may be performed by means of an appropriate function giving a spectrum of different measures of diversity: diversity profiles. They can be expressed as a function of the unknown abundance vector of the ecological population. In this paper we develop a non parametric approach based on bootstrap in order to make inference on diversity profiles. The proposed procedure is applied on biological data of four parks in Milan, Italy.

Keywords: $\beta$ diversity profiles; bootstrap root estimate; balanced confidence regions; replicated sampling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/s10260-003-0076-9

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