Sampling effects on food availability estimates: Phenological method, sample size, and species composition

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 354-364

  Hemingway, Claire A ^a,c   Overdorff, Deborah J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Food availability; Madagascar; Phenology; Ranomafana National Park; Sampling effects; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; METHODOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 0033513085     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00147.x     Document Type: Article

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