Estimating the richness of species with variable mobility

摘要: The vast majority of species are animals that, unlike most plants and fungi, variably often highly mobile. While species' mobility affects probabilities being sampled, effects movement on the estimation richness have yet to be systematically investigated. Information-rich abundance-based estimators may able address mobile but accuracy these has also Here, we both issues by sampling simulated landscapes with up 250 evaluating performance ten non-parametric one accumulation curve. Our results show that some as accurate better known tested incidence-based estimators. Increased heterogeneity between reduced estimator reducing sample coverage, which determined was accurate. Based findings, present first decision framework for choosing many available species-richness These decisions, based data can significantly improve investigators' ability estimate faunal richness.