Estimating sample representativeness in a survey of stream caddisfly fauna

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-187

  Schmera, D ^a   Eros, T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Riffle; Sample representativeness; Sampling; Stream fauna; Trichoptera

Indexed keywords

CADDISFLY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; RIFFLE; SAMPLING; STREAM;

BORZSONY MOUNTAINS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33749452694     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2006019     Document Type: Article

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