Thirty years of progeny from Chao's inequality : estimating and comparing richness with incidence data and incomplete sampling
Chao, Anne (National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). Institute of Statistics)
Colwell, Robert K. (University of Connecticut. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	In the context of capture-recapture studies, Chao (1987) derived an inequality among capture frequency counts to obtain a lower bound for the size of a population based on individuals' capture/non-capture records for multiple capture occasions. The inequality has been applied to obtain a non-parametric lower bound of species richness of an assemblage based on species incidence (detection/non-detection) data in multiple sampling units. The inequality implies that the number of undetected species can be inferred from the species incidence frequency counts of the uniques (species detected in only one sampling unit) and duplicates (species detected in exactly two sampling units). In their pioneering paper, Colwell and Coddington (1994) gave the name "Chao2" to the estimator for the resulting species richness. (The "Chao1" estimator refers to a similar type of estimator based on species abundance data). Since then, the Chao2 estimator has been applied to many research fields and led to fruitful generalizations. Here, we first review Chao's inequality under various models and discuss some related statistical inference questions: (1) Under what conditions is the Chao2 estimator an unbiased point estimator? (2) How many additional sampling units are needed to detect any arbitrary proportion (including 100%) of the Chao2 estimate of asymptotic species richness? (3) Can other incidence frequency counts be used to obtain similar lower bounds? We then show how the Chao2 estimator can be also used to guide a non-asymptotic analysis in which species richness estimators can be compared for equally-large or equally-complete samples via sample-size-based and coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation. We also review the generalization of Chao's inequality to estimate species richness under other sampling-without-replacement schemes (e. g. a set of quadrats, each surveyed only once), to obtain a lower bound of undetected species shared between two or multiple assemblages, and to allow inferences about undetected phylogenetic richness (the total length of undetected branches of a phylogenetic tree connecting all species), with associated rarefaction and extrapolation. A small empirical dataset for Australian birds is used for illustration, using online software SpadeR, iNEXT, and PhD.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Cauchy-Schwarz inequality ; Chao2 estimator ; Extrapolation ; Good-Turing frequency ; Formula ; Incidence data ; Phylogenetic diversity ; Rarefaction ; Sampling effort ; Shared species richness ; Species richness
Published in:	SORT : statistics and operations research transactions, Vol. 41 Núm. 1 (January-June 2017) , p. 3-54 (Invited articles) , ISSN 2013-8830

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DOI: 10.2436/20.8080.02.49

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