Determining the effects of habitat fragment area on grasshopper species density and richness: A comparison of proportional and uniform sampling methods

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 295-304

  Nufio, R César ^a   McClenahan, L Jeff ^a   Thurston, G Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grasshoppers; Habitat fragmentation; Rarefaction curves; Sampling protocols; Species estimators; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149131492     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2009.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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