Assessing completeness of Mexican sphinx moth inventories through species accumulation functions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-44

  Leon Cortes J L ^a   Soberon Mainero J ^a   Llorente Bousquets, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Mexico; Moths; Sphingidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002601183     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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