Assessing spider species richness and composition in Mediterranean cork oak forests

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-127

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b,c   Gaspar, Clara ^c,d   Pereira, Luis C ^e   Silva, Israel ^b   Henriques, Sérgio S ^e   da Silva, Ricardo R ^e   Sousa, Pedro ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Araneae; Arr bida; Biodiversity assessment; Iberian Peninsula; Methodology; Portugal; Quercus suber; Richness estimators; Semi quantitative sampling; Stop rules

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; TESTING METHOD; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARANEAE; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 38849088056     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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