Population assessments of soil fauna: General criteria for the planning of sampling schemes

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 439-445

  Ekschmitt, Klemens ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acarina; Araneida; Broken stick model; Coleoptera; Collembola; Confidence limits; Enchytraeidae; Geometric distribution; Nematoda; Rare species; Sampling; error; U test

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0000424921     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00102-4     Document Type: Article

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