Assessing diversity of diurnal lepidoptera in habitat fragments: Testing the efficiency of strip transects

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1313-1322

  Williams, Matthew R ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Day flying moths; Estimating species richness; Sample completeness; Sampling fraction

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BOOTSTRAPPING; BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOTH; SAMPLING; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOLOGY; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOLOGY; LEPIDOPTERA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 56049103556     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[1313:ADODLI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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