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References

Diversity and evenness metrics

Legendre, P., and Legendre, L., 1998. Numerical Ecology, 2nd English edition: Amsterdam, Elsevier, 853 p.

Colwell, R., and J. Coddington, 1994. Estimatng terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society of London B, 345:101-118.

Individual-based (classical) rarefaction

Heck, K.L., Jr., G. Van Belle, and D. Simberloff, 1975. Explicit calculation of the rarefaction diversity measurement and the determination of sufficient sample size. Ecology 56:1459-1461.

Hurlbert, S.H., 1971. The nonconcept of species diversity: a critique and alternative parameters. Ecology 52: 577-586.

Raup, D.M., 1975. Taxonomic diversity estimation using rarefaction. Paleobiology 1: 333-342.

Tipper, J.C., 1979. Rarefaction and rarefiction - the use and abuse of a method in paleontology. Paleobiology 5: 423-434.

Sample-based rarefaction

Colwell, R., Mao, C., and Chang, J., 2004, Interpolating, extrapolating, and comparing incidence-based species accumulation curves. Ecology, v. 85, p. 2717-2727.