Fig. 2: Rarefaction curves showing the effect of increasing sample size on the number of hyperdominants, total species, hyperdominant percentage and fitted values of Fisher’s α in tropical tree communities.
From: Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
a–d, The effect of increasing sample size on the number of hyperdominants (a), total species (b), hyperdominant percentage (c) and fitted values of Fisher’s α (d) in tropical Africa (magenta), Amazonia (cyan), Southeast Asia (blue). Rarefied data (mean values across iterations of subsamples) are shown as points joined by lines for clarity, shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals (derived via the s.d. across iterations of subsamples taken with replacement at each sampling point). Note that resampling for rarefaction was by subsampling of plots, but curves are re-plotted on an x axis of number of stems.
