The ant fauna of a tropical rain forest: Estimating species richness three different ways

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 689-702

  Longino, John T ^a   Coddington, Jonathan ^b   Colwell, Robert K ^c  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance distribution; Ants; Biodiversity; Costa Rica; Formicidae; Incidence based coverage estimator; Inventories, species; La Selva; Lognormal; Michaelis Menten; Richness estimation; Species accumulation curves; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ANT; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFOREST; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA;

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0003184420     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0689:TAFOAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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