Estimating species relative abundances from museum records

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Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. / Gotelli, Nicholas J.; Booher, Douglas B.; Urban, Mark C.; Ulrich, Werner; Suarez, Andrew V.; Skelly, David K.; Russell, David J.; Rowe, Rebecca J.; Rothendler, Matthew; Rios, Nelson; Rehan, Sandra M.; Ni, George; Moreau, Corrie S.; Magurran, Anne E.; Jones, Faith A. M.; Graves, Gary R.; Fiera, Cristina; Burkhardt, Ulrich; Primack, Richard B.

In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2023, p. 431-443.

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Harvard

Gotelli, NJ, Booher, DB, Urban, MC, Ulrich, W, Suarez, AV, Skelly, DK, Russell, DJ, Rowe, RJ, Rothendler, M, Rios, N, Rehan, SM, Ni, G, Moreau, CS, Magurran, AE, Jones, FAM, Graves, GR, Fiera, C, Burkhardt, U & Primack, RB 2023, 'Estimating species relative abundances from museum records', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 431-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13705

APA

Gotelli, N. J., Booher, D. B., Urban, M. C., Ulrich, W., Suarez, A. V., Skelly, D. K., Russell, D. J., Rowe, R. J., Rothendler, M., Rios, N., Rehan, S. M., Ni, G., Moreau, C. S., Magurran, A. E., Jones, F. A. M., Graves, G. R., Fiera, C., Burkhardt, U., & Primack, R. B. (2023). Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13705

Vancouver

Gotelli NJ, Booher DB, Urban MC, Ulrich W, Suarez AV, Skelly DK et al. Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2023;14(2):431-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13705

Author

Gotelli, Nicholas J. ; Booher, Douglas B. ; Urban, Mark C. ; Ulrich, Werner ; Suarez, Andrew V. ; Skelly, David K. ; Russell, David J. ; Rowe, Rebecca J. ; Rothendler, Matthew ; Rios, Nelson ; Rehan, Sandra M. ; Ni, George ; Moreau, Corrie S. ; Magurran, Anne E. ; Jones, Faith A. M. ; Graves, Gary R. ; Fiera, Cristina ; Burkhardt, Ulrich ; Primack, Richard B. / Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2023 ; Vol. 14, No. 2. pp. 431-443.

Bibtex

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title = "Estimating species relative abundances from museum records",
abstract = "Dated, geo-referenced museum specimens are a rich data source for reconstructing species' distribution and abundance patterns. However, museum records are potentially biased towards over-representation of rare species, and it is unclear whether museum records can be used to estimate relative abundance in the field. We assembled 17 coupled field and museum datasets to quantitatively compare relative abundance estimates with the Dirichlet distribution. Collectively, these datasets comprise 73,039 museum records and 1,405,316 field observations of 2,240 species. Although museum records of rare species overestimated relative abundance by 1-fold to over 100-fold (median study = 9.0), the relative abundance of species estimated from museum occurrence records was strongly correlated with relative abundance estimated from standardized field surveys (r2 range of 0.10–0.91, median study = 0.43). These analyses provide a justification for estimating species relative abundance with carefully curated museum occurrence records, which may allow for the detection of temporal or spatial shifts in the rank ordering of common and rare species.",
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RIS

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AU - Gotelli, Nicholas J.

AU - Booher, Douglas B.

AU - Urban, Mark C.

AU - Ulrich, Werner

AU - Suarez, Andrew V.

AU - Skelly, David K.

AU - Russell, David J.

AU - Rowe, Rebecca J.

AU - Rothendler, Matthew

AU - Rios, Nelson

AU - Rehan, Sandra M.

AU - Ni, George

AU - Moreau, Corrie S.

AU - Magurran, Anne E.

AU - Jones, Faith A. M.

AU - Graves, Gary R.

AU - Fiera, Cristina

AU - Burkhardt, Ulrich

AU - Primack, Richard B.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: Methods in Ecology and Evolution© 2021 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Dated, geo-referenced museum specimens are a rich data source for reconstructing species' distribution and abundance patterns. However, museum records are potentially biased towards over-representation of rare species, and it is unclear whether museum records can be used to estimate relative abundance in the field. We assembled 17 coupled field and museum datasets to quantitatively compare relative abundance estimates with the Dirichlet distribution. Collectively, these datasets comprise 73,039 museum records and 1,405,316 field observations of 2,240 species. Although museum records of rare species overestimated relative abundance by 1-fold to over 100-fold (median study = 9.0), the relative abundance of species estimated from museum occurrence records was strongly correlated with relative abundance estimated from standardized field surveys (r2 range of 0.10–0.91, median study = 0.43). These analyses provide a justification for estimating species relative abundance with carefully curated museum occurrence records, which may allow for the detection of temporal or spatial shifts in the rank ordering of common and rare species.

AB - Dated, geo-referenced museum specimens are a rich data source for reconstructing species' distribution and abundance patterns. However, museum records are potentially biased towards over-representation of rare species, and it is unclear whether museum records can be used to estimate relative abundance in the field. We assembled 17 coupled field and museum datasets to quantitatively compare relative abundance estimates with the Dirichlet distribution. Collectively, these datasets comprise 73,039 museum records and 1,405,316 field observations of 2,240 species. Although museum records of rare species overestimated relative abundance by 1-fold to over 100-fold (median study = 9.0), the relative abundance of species estimated from museum occurrence records was strongly correlated with relative abundance estimated from standardized field surveys (r2 range of 0.10–0.91, median study = 0.43). These analyses provide a justification for estimating species relative abundance with carefully curated museum occurrence records, which may allow for the detection of temporal or spatial shifts in the rank ordering of common and rare species.

KW - biodiversity

KW - fishes

KW - invertebrates

KW - mammals

KW - museum records

KW - plants

KW - relative abundance

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JO - Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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