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  • Ecology
  • Community Ecology
  • Biodiversity Research

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  • The species pool concept is crucial for understanding ecological patterns across multiple scales.
  • Existing methods for species pool identification rely on broad-scale data or multi-area community similarity.
  • A statistical method for estimating species pools from single, small local communities (≤ 1 km²) was previously unavailable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel statistical method for estimating the area size and species richness of a species pool for a single local ecological community.
  • To address the limitation of existing methods that require extensive data from multiple locations.
  • To provide a tool for analyzing species pools in small-scale ecological assemblages.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a two-step method utilizing local abundance information.
  • Step 1: Estimated parameters of a truncated negative trinomial model for non-random species distribution within the local community.
  • Step 2: Assumed rare species in the local community represent unseen species in the larger pool, enabling estimation of pool area size based on a defined rarity threshold. An optimal method was developed to determine this threshold.

Main Results:

  • Applied to a 0.5 km² forest plot in Panama, the method estimated the species pool to encompass nearly the entire island, with an estimated richness of ~360 tree species.
  • Confidence intervals indicated a potential richness of up to 418 species, aligning with island flora records.
  • Numerical tests confirmed the method's power and reliability, with true hypothetical species pool values falling within confidence intervals.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method successfully estimates species pools for single local ecological assemblages with limited data, filling a critical knowledge gap.
  • The statistical approach is robust and independent of sampling size.
  • Empirical and numerical tests validate the method's effectiveness and reliability for ecological research.