Sampling terrestrial gastropod communities: Using estimates of species richness and diversity to compare two methods

Malacologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 271-281

  McCoy, Karen D ^a  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Diversity; Gastropoda; Land Mollusca; Richness estimation; Sampling techniques; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ARION; ARION CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; BETULA PENDULA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0000962125     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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