Forecasting insect species richness scores in poorly surveyed territories: The case of the Portuguese dung beetles (Col. Scarabaeinae)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1343-1367

  Hortal, J ^a   Lobo, J M ^a   Martin Piera F ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dung beetle; Generalized linear models; Geographic information system (GIS); Insect conservation; Portugal; Sampling effort; Scarabaeinae; Spatial autocorrelation; Species richness forecast

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 0034858399     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016624500023     Document Type: Article

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