Mist net effort required to inventory a forest bat species assemblage

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 251-257

  Weller, Theodore J ^a   Lee, Danny C ^a,b  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Inventory; Species accumulation; Species richness; Survey effort; Survey protocol

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAT; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CAPTURE METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248136050     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-384     Document Type: Article

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