Psychoacoustic sampling as a reliable, non-invasive method to monitor orthopteran species diversity in tropical forests

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4081-4093

  Diwakar, Swati ^a   Jain, Manjari ^a   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Ambient noise recordings; Crickets; Focal animal sampling; Hearing threshold; India; Katydids; Species diversity; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AMBIENT NOISE; BIOACOUSTICS; BIOMONITORING; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; EVERGREEN FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEARING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA; GRYLLIDAE; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 36148992284     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9208-0     Document Type: Article

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