Sampling aquatic invertebrates from marshes: Evaluating the options

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 694-709

  Turner, Andrew M ^a,b   Trexler, Joel C ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Aquatic macrophytes; Everglades; Marsh; Rarefaction; Relative abundance; Sampler bias; Species composition; Species richness; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE; MARSH; SAMPLING;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA; USA;

INVERTEBRATA; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS;

EID: 0030984391     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468154     Document Type: Article

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