Methoden vergleichen

	Indikatorwertanalyse	Speziesakkumulationskurve
Fachgebiet	Ökologie	Ökologie
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1997	1968
Urheber	Marc Dufrene and Pierre Legendre	Henry Sanders
Typ	species-habitat association analysis	biodiversity quantification and comparison
Wegweisende Quelle	Dufrene, M., & Legendre, P. (1997). Species assemblages and indicator species: the need for a flexible asymmetrical approach. Ecological Monographs, 67(3), 345-366.	Colwell, R. K. (1994). Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 345(1311), 101-118.
Aliasnamen	IndVal, indicator species, fidelity, specificity	rarefaction, species accumulation curve, species richness curve
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Indicator Value (IndVal) analysis, developed by Dufrene and Legendre (1997), identifies species that reliably indicate the presence of particular environmental conditions, habitat types, or community groups. The method quantifies the association between species and habitat, producing an indicator value that combines specificity (exclusive preference for certain habitats) and fidelity (consistent presence when the habitat occurs). IndVal is widely used in conservation to identify species of management concern, in habitat typing to discover indicator species, and in restoration ecology to assess whether recovered communities match reference conditions.	Species accumulation curves describe how the number of observed species increases with cumulative sampling effort. Introduced by Sanders (1968) and developed by Colwell and colleagues, this method enables ecologists to compare biodiversity across sites and estimate total species richness despite incomplete sampling. It addresses a fundamental challenge in ecology: observed species counts are biased by sampling intensity.