Application of adaptive cluster sampling to low-density populations of freshwater mussels

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-15

  Smith, David R ^a   Villella, Rita F ^a   Lemarié, David P ^a  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cluster sampling; Biological surveys; Freshwater mussels; Sampling rare populations; Unionids

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MOLLUSC; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 0037340802     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021956617984     Document Type: Article

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