Comparing Two Vertical Plankton Distributions

Traditional statistical methods for testing for differences in vertical plankton distributions are invalid when the distributions are patchy. This note describes a modification of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test that is insensitive to patchiness. The modified test is applied to some data on day-night di...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Limnology and oceanography 2000-03, Vol.45 (2), p.506-509
Main Authors: Solow, Andrew R., Bollens, Stephen M., Beet, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Brackish
Estimation methods
Freshwater
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General aspects. Techniques
Marine
Methods and techniques (sampling, tagging, trapping, modelling...)
Night tables
Plankton
Proportions
Random allocation
Sampling distributions
Significance level
Statistical variance
Vertical distribution
Zooplankton
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Traditional statistical methods for testing for differences in vertical plankton distributions are invalid when the distributions are patchy. This note describes a modification of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test that is insensitive to patchiness. The modified test is applied to some data on day-night differences in the vertical distribution of two zooplankton taxa.
ISSN:0024-3590
1939-5590
DOI:10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0506