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Quantifying the responses of biological indices to rare macroinvertebrate taxa exclusion: Does excluding more rare taxa cause more error?

Including or excluding rare taxa in bioassessment is a controversial topic, which essentially affects the reliability and accuracy of the result. In the present paper, we hypothesize that biological indices such as Shannon–Wiener index, Simpson's index, Margalef index, evenness, BMWP (biologica...

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Autores principales: Yu, Zhengda, Wang, Hui, Meng, Jiao, Miao, Mingsheng, Kong, Qiang, Wang, Renqing, Liu, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28261467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2798