Few beetle species can be detected with 95% confidence using pitfall traps

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-23

  Driscoll, Don A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Detection probability; False absence; Metapopulation; Sampling effort; Survey design

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; METAPOPULATION; PITFALL TRAP; PROBABILITY; RAINFOREST; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 75449101267     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02007.x     Document Type: Article

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