Hi Rajasri,
Sorry for coming to this late. Is your concern that in the case of small
patches you've sampled completely, but in the case of large patches, some
species may have gone undetected?
If that's the case, using Chao's indices might be a good option. They try
to take account of "unseen"
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Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Similarity index
Hello,
I am trying to compare species composition among different patches
which vary in their sizes to a great extent.I am planning to compute
Jaccard's similarity index for this. For species enumeration, in some
patches I have docu
Hello,
I am trying to compare species composition among different patches
which vary in their sizes to a great extent.I am planning to compute
Jaccard's similarity index for this. For species enumeration, in some
patches I have documented presence of all members (due to very small size of
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