Estimating species richness of tropical bird communities from rapid assessment data

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 749-769

  Herzog, Sebastian K ^a   Kessler, Michael ^a   Cahill, Thomas M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BOLIVIA;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0036656048     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089971     Document Type: Article

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