Archive for June, 2018

Misuse and abuse of data analysis in biological surveys – what is a species accumulation curve and what does it mean

In Western Australia, the EPA Technical Guidance – Sampling methods for terrestrial vertebrate fauna (2016) makes the following comments about reporting on the effectiveness of sampling in fauna surveys: ‘species accumulation curves can be useful in estimating total species richness and the proportion of species caught during a fauna survey’ (p31) and ‘average randomised species […]... [READ MORE HERE]