Rarefaction, alpha diversity, and statistics with Amy Willis (#17)

January 22, 2018

In this episode, Amy Willis joins me to talk about good and bad ways to estimate taxonomic richness in microbial ecology studies.

Links:

• Rarefaction, alpha diversity, and statistics
• Estimating Diversity via Frequency Ratios
• Estimating the Number of Species in Microbial Diversity Studies
• Summer Institutes 2018 at the University of Washington
• STAMPS: Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures
• bio2040, a new podcast by Flavio Rump

Music: Eric Skiff — Come and Find Me (modified, licensed under CC BY 4.0).

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