Species richness and composition assessment of spiders in a Mediterranean scrubland

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-55

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b,c   Henriques, Sérgio S ^d,e   Gaspar, Clara ^c,f   Crespo, Luis C ^g   Carvalho, Rui ^d   Schmidt, Jesper B ^a   Sousa, Pedro ^h,i   Szüts, Tamás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Araneae; Biodiversity assessment; Estimators; Inventory; Sampling protocol

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; SCRUB; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARANEAE;

EID: 58149350103     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-007-9116-3     Document Type: Article

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