Scale and trends in species richness: Considerations for monitoring biological diversity for political purposes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-104

  Weber, Darius ^a   Hintermann, Urs ^a   Zangger, Adrian ^a  

^a Hintermann and Weber SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity monitoring; CBD; Sampling; Spatial scale; Species richness; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MONITORING; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; PUBLIC SECTOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 2042455864     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-882X.2004.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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