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. 2018 Mar 26;6:e4572. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4572

Table 1. Estimated plant richness in the faecal samples of E. spelaea of which the number of observed species is 55, the number of faecal sample is 10 and the total number of incidences is 185.

Species richness model Estimate Standard error Lower limit of 95% confidence interval Upper limit of 95% confidence interval
Homogenous modela 60.324 2.996 56.904 69.882
Chao2b 66.604 7.040 58.873 89.766
Chao2-bcc 65.260 6.342 58.365 86.286
iChao2d 68.961 4.356 62.682 80.372

Notes:

a

This model assumes that all species have same incidence of detection probabilities.

b

This approach uses the frequencies of uniques and duplicates to estimate the number of undetected species.

c

A bias-corrected form for the Chao2 estimator.

d

Improved Chao2 estimator.