Assessing the completeness of bat biodiversity inventories using species accumulation curves

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 149-158

  Moreno, Claudia E ^a   Halffter, Gonzalo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alpha and gamma diversity; Chiroptera; Cumulative models; Sampling effort

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEYING;

MEXICO;

EID: 0034014053     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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