Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales? II – Diversity indices

Question : We asked whether ordinal cover scales cause biases in biodiversity indices derived from vegetation plots and, if so, whether a different back-translation of ordinal categories could improve the situation. Methods : We took three empirical vegetation-plot datasets from different regions an...

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Published in:Vegetation Classification and Survey 2025-05, Vol.6, p.133-140
Main Authors: Dembicz, Iwona, Dengler, Jürgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arithmetic
Bias
Biodiversity
Datasets
Diversity indices
Grasslands
Ranking
Translation
Vegetation
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