hello all, i want to know whether pooled invaded quadrats (n=6) show decreased diversity compared to pooled uninvaded quadrats (n=6) - or in other words, whether species are lacking from invaded quadrats. to yield confidence limits i bootstrapped pooled absence/presence species data from 6 quadrats using inverse simpson diversity (the number of equally-common species required to give a particular value). i took the boot-samples from a vector where species identifiers were multiplied with nr. of occurences, and calculated simps.div. from the tabulated bootstrapped vectors 1000 times. the boostrap estimates of diversity indices are known to be negatively biased. i get bias of magnitude -4 to -9 which i use for the adjustment of the diversity estimates from the observed pooled values and wonder if i should be concerned about the magnitude of bias or not. histogramms of boot-samples look ok... i also used simpson index with small sample corr. (with form: sum(x)*(sum(x)-1)/sum(x*(x-1))), where the bias is small but the estimates from the observed values tend to correct for high amounts (large difference to uncorrected estimates). any pointers on how to deal with this would be greatly appreciated, kay
bootstrapping diversity indices
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