Exhaustive sampling in a Southern Hemisphere global biodiversity hotspot: Inventorying species richness and assessing endemicity of the little known jarrah forest spiders

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-260

  Brennan, Karl E C ^a   Moir, Melinda L ^a   Majer, Jonathan D ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Araneae; Collecting effort; Endemism; Extrapolation; Structured inventory; Undescribed species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMISM; SAMPLING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARANEAE; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 11144305362     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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