EstimateS turns 20: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples, with non‐parametric extrapolation

@article{Colwell2014EstimateST2,
  title={EstimateS turns 20: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples, with non‐parametric extrapolation},
  author={Robert K. Colwell and Robert K. Colwell and Johanna E. Elsensohn},
  journal={Ecography},
  year={2014},
  volume={37},
  pages={609-613}
}
EstimateS offers statistical tools for analyzing and comparing the diversity and composition of species assemblages, based on sampling data. The latest version computes a wide range of biodiversity statistics for both sample-based and individual-based data, including analytical rarefaction and non-parametric extrapolation, estimators of asymptotic species richness, diversity indices, Hill numbers, and (for sample-based data) measures of compositional similarity among assemblages. In the first… 
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