Quantitative extraction of macro-invertebrates from temperate and tropical leaf litter and soil: Efficiency and time-dependent taxonomic biases of the Winkler extraction

Pedobiologia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-186

  Krell, Frank Thorsten ^a   Chung, Arthur Y C ^b   DeBoise, Emma ^a   Eggleton, Paul ^a   Giusti, Alessandro ^a   Inward, Kelly ^a   Krell Westerwalbesloh, Sylvia ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chilopoda; Coleoptera; Extraction; Soil macro invertebrates; Winkler extractor

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION METHOD; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING BIAS; SOIL;

CHILOPODA; COLEOPTERA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 14944372514     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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