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Comparing two vertical plankton distributions
Author(s) -
Solow Andrew R.,
Bollens Stephen M.,
Beet Andrew
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0506
Subject(s) - plankton , zooplankton , environmental science , distribution (mathematics) , statistics , oceanography , geology , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Traditional statistical methods for testing for differences in vertical plankton distributions are invalid when the distributions are patchy. This note describes a modification of the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov test that is insensitive to patchiness. The modified test is applied to some data on day‐night differences in the vertical distribution of two zooplankton taxa.