Estimating regional species richness of tropical insects from museum data: A comparison of a geography-based and sample-based methods

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 672-681

  Beck, Jan ^a,c   Kitching, Ian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Lepidoptera; Malesia; South east Asia; Sphingidae; WS2M

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; MOTH; MUSEUM; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 34249089563     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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