Step process for selecting and testing surrogates and indicators of afrotemperate forest invertebrate diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Uys, Charmaine ^a,b   Hamerb, Michelle ^a,c   Slotow, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDICATOR;

ANT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BURN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; EARTHWORM; FILTER; HABITAT; IMMOBILIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLLUSC; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PLANNING; SAMPLING; SEASON; SOIL; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUMMER; TAXON; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; TREE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CHILOPODA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77949401175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009100     Document Type: Article

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