How many branchiopod crustacean species are there? Quantifying the components of underestimation

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 455-468

  Adamowicz, Sarah J ^a   Purvis, Andy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cladocera; Clam shrimp; Conchostracan; Estimating diversity; Extrapolation; Fairy shrimp; Freshwater; Tadpole shrimp; Water fleas

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRUSTACEAN; ESTIMATION METHOD; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANOSTRACA; BIVALVIA; BRANCHIOPODA; CLADOCERA; CONCHOSTRACA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; NOTOSTRACA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 28244438087     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2005.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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