Developing a monitoring program for invertebrates: Guidelines and a case study

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 422-433

  Rohr, Jason R ^a   Mahan, Carolyn G ^b   Kim, Ke Chung ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biodiversity surrogates; Complementarity; Convention on Biological Diversity; Higher taxa; Morphospecies; Ordination; Rarefaction curves

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ORDINATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TREES; VIRGINIA;

NORTH AMERICA; SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; CONIUM; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33947525251     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00578.x     Document Type: Article

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