The adequacy of collecting techniques for estimating species richness of grassland invertebrates

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 884-893

  Standen, V ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D vac technique; Monitoring; Pitfall traps; Rarefaction; Sampling; Swish net

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; INVERTEBRATE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0033676648     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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