The use of species abundance estimates in marine benthic studies |
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Authors: | Les Watling Peter C Kinner Don Maurer |
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Institution: | Ira C. Darling Center, University of Maine, Walpole, Maine, U.S.A.;Normandeau Associates. Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.;College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The application of species abundance estimates, commonly used in terrestrial plant ecology, to marine benthic dredge data is advocated. Two possible scales were tested for their ability to measure adequately the structure of an assemblage by computing measures of evenness diversity McNaughton's dominance index, and Morisita's index of dispersion using both real counts obtained from grab samples and these counts transformed into the two respective abundance estimates. It is concluded that species abundance estimators, when applied to grab or dredge data result in significant savings in sample processing time with only a minimal loss of information about assemblage structure. |
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