Manual versus automatic moth sampling at equal light sources - A comparison of catches from Mt. Kilimanjaro

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 196-202

  Axmacher, Jan C ^a   Fiedler, Konrad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diversity assessment; Geometridae; Sampling method; Tropical mountain rainforest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MOTH; RAINFOREST; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KILIMANJARO [KILIMANJARO (RGN)]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

ENNOMINAE; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LARENTIINAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 11344275797     PISSN: 00240966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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