Assessing biodiversity with species accumulation curves; inventories of small reptiles by pit-trapping in Western Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-383

  Thompson, Graham G ^a   Withers, Philip C ^b   Pianka, Eric R ^c   Thompson, Scott A ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Diversity; Fauna surveys; Lizards; Rarity; Reptiles; Species accumulation curve; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; PITFALL TRAP; REPTILE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0043233557     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2003.01295.x     Document Type: Article

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