Affiliation:
1. Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87501, USA.
Abstract
Bunge
et al
. claim that we underestimated the error in our analysis of bacterial diversity in noncontaminated soil. However, they used an unsatisfactory model that exhibited pathological behavior and consequently led to an exceptionally high calculated error. In contrast, the zipf distribution yielded an error estimate only 0.7 times the estimate of the total number of species (
S
), and it is more biologically relevant.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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