Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © University of Chicago, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of University of Chicago for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in American Naturalist 176 (2010): 96-98, doi:10.1086/653077.
Description:
There is growing interest in predicting the abundance of a species in a region from the occupancy of cells in a uniform grid overlaid on the region. When the number of individuals in each cell follows a negative binomial distribution, prediction is in general not possible from the number of unoccupied cells alone. A prediction method based on the number of unoccupied cells and the number containing a single individual is described and shown to work well on simulated and real data.
Keywords:
Negative binomial distribution
;
Optimal prediction
;
Species abundance
;
Species occupancy
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
Format:
application/pdf
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