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. 2017 Oct 18;3(10):e1701438. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1701438

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Fig. 2 — It consists of three steps. (A) We know the abundances of S* species within a given region covering a fraction p* of the whole forest. (B) We perform the best fit (maximum likelihood) of the SAD (an NB or an LS). (C) Using the best-fit parameters obtained in (B) and using our upscaling Eqs. 11 and 15, we predict the biodiversity S_pred of the whole forest.