Quantitative assessment of grassland quality: Acoustic determination of population sizes of orthopteran indicator species

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 909-920

  Fischer, Franz Peter ^a   Schulz, Ulrich ^a   Schubert, Holger ^a   Knapp, Petra ^a   Schmöger, Marcus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustical scanning; Eutrophication; Grasshopper; Grassland quality and monitoring; Indicator species; Population size

Indexed keywords

ORTHOPTERA;

GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND QUALITY; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 0030613977     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0909:QAOGQA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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