PLOCH: A standardized method for sampling and assessing the biodiversity in ponds

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 665-679

  Oertli, Beat ^a   Joye, Dominique Auderset ^b   Castella, Emmanuel ^b   Juge, Raphaëlle ^b   Lehmann, Anthony ^c   Lachavanne, Jean Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Aquatic plants; Assessment methods; Invertebrates; Predictive models; Small water bodies; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; POND; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

AMPHIBIA; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ODONATA;

EID: 28144463219     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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