Diversity and distribution of groundwater fauna in a calcrete aquifer: Does sampling method influence the story?

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-138

  Allford, Adam ^a   Cooper, Steven J B ^a,b   Humphreys, William F ^a,c   Austin, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrete interval sampling; Haul net; Pump sampling; Stygofauna

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; CALCRETE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GROUNDWATER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 43549112332     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS07058     Document Type: Article

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