Efficiency of adaptive cluster and random sampling in detecting terrestrial herpetofauna in a tropical rainforest

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-68

  Noon, Barry R ^a   Ishwar, N M ^b   Vasudevan, Karthikeyaw ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive cluster sampling; Amphibians; India; Rainforest; Reptiles; Sampling efficiency; Simple random sampling; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RAINFOREST; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 33646573327     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[59:EOACAR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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