Inventorying and estimating subcanopy spider diversity using semiquantitative sampling methods in an afromontane forest

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 319-330

  Sørensen, Line L ^a   Coddington, Jonathan A ^b   Scharff, Nikolaj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Montane forest spiders; Sampling intensity; Sampling methods; Species richness estimation

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

TANZANIA; UZUNGWA SCARP FOREST RESERVE;

ARANEAE;

EID: 0036557357     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.2.319     Document Type: Article

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