Testing species richness estimation methods using museum label data on the Danish Asilidae

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 687-701

  Petersen, Frederik Torp ^a   Meier, Rudolf ^a   Larsen, Marie Nykjær ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abundance based coverage estimator; Asilidae; Bootstrap; Chaol; Denmark; Diptera; Estimation; Insects; Jackknife; Lognormal; Michaelis Menten; Museum collections; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MUSEUM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

DENMARK;

ARTHROPODA; ASILIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037375493     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022464710930     Document Type: Article

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