Strengths and weaknesses of museum and national survey data sets for predicting regional species richness: Comparative and combined approaches

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-359

  Guralnick, Robert ^a   Van Cleve, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Bird species richness; Breeding bird survey; Great Backyard Bird Count; Museum collections data; Rare representation; Species richness estimation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MUSEUM; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES;

EID: 22544451271     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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