Optimal schemes to detect the presence of insect species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 476-487

  Zonneveld, C ^a   Longcore, T ^b   Mulder, C ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b The Urban Wildlands Group   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SURVEYING;

EUPHYDRYAS; EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0043241951     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01516.x     Document Type: Article

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