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Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2012, 2(1): 50-52
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Biodiversity optimal sampling: an algorithmic solution

Alessandro Ferrarini
Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Via G. Saragat 4, I-43100 Parma, Italy

Received 13 November 2011;Accepted 20 December 2011;Published online 5 March 2012
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Abstract
Biodiversity sampling is a very serious task. When biodiversity sampling is not representative of the biodiversity spatial pattern due to few data or uncorrected sampling point locations, successive analyses, models and simulations are inevitably biased. In this work, I propose a new solution to the problem of biodiversity sampling. The proposed approach is proficient for habitats, plant and animal species, in addition it is able to answer the two pivotal questions of biodiversity sampling: 1) how many sampling points and 2) where are the sampling points.

Keywords ecological-biological sampling;optimization;cost-benefit tradeoff;Shannon's evenness index;genetic algorithms;GIS.



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