A quality control protocol for terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity assessment

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-146

  Wilkie, Lance ^a   Cassis, Gerasimos ^a   Gray, Mike ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity technician; Error monitoring; Invertebrate biodiversity assessment; Process control; Quality control; Taxonomic assessment; Taxonomic specialist

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; INVERTEBRATE; QUALITY CONTROL; TAXONOMY;

CHRYSANTHEMOIDES; CHRYSANTHEMOIDES MONILIFERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037259421     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021242329800     Document Type: Article

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