The ones we left behind: Comparing plot sampling and floristic habitat sampling for estimating bryophyte diversity

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-72

  Newmaster, Steven G ^a   Belland, René J ^b   Arsenault, André ^c   Vitt, Dale H ^d   Stephens, Tara R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Southern Interior Region   (Canada)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canada; Cryptogams; Sampling protocols; Species richness; Temperate rainforest

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; FLORISTICS; FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 13444288377     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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