Sentence examples for estimates of diversity from inspiring English sources

Catch data recorded at a taxonomic resolution of family or lower were not incorporated into the estimate of functional diversity based on fine-scale trait data as averaged trait values at these lower resolutions would bias estimates of diversity.

In some cases collecting in habitats that have not been well explored reveal hidden diversity; in other cases a failure to recognize significant morphological characters has led to under estimates of diversity.

Or they can belong to other types of phylogenies (non-cladistic) if they include different components of the evolutionary history of organisms such as estimates of diversity, enrichment or depletion of species, absolute time, biogeographical relations, and the direction of evolutionary change, in addition to genealogy.

Systematic biases in estimates of diversity were created by removing unresolved nuclear alleles from the dataset [67].

The estimates of diversity, richness, evenness and library coverage for the three 16S rDNA clone libraries studied are shown in Table 4.

Of course, these estimates of diversity may be biased by the coverage of the primers and amplification conditions, and key lineages could possibly remain undetected [22].

The estimate of diversity in the communities suggests that the original field soil harbored the most diverse communities, and all soil treatments reduced the diversity.

The inverse of the Simpson dominance (d s ) was preferred to the Simpson diversity index (D s ) for the analysis given that the latter provides a good estimate of diversity at relatively small sample sizes (Magurran 2004).

Despite the lack of data, we have herein created a baseline estimate of diversity for the region, which will aid in the monitoring and detection of future changes occurring in the system in future.

Through an extensive survey of existing studies, databases, museum records, and unpublished information (where possible), we present the first estimate of diversity for the deep-sea Gulf of Maine region: 1671 species, distributed across 2 Kingdoms and 18 Phyla.

The highest discrepancy rate (454 to Illumina: 0.0071%) was an order of magnitude below the overall estimate of diversity obtained for the sperm whale mitogenome (π = 0.096%).