Assessing the reliability of biodiversity databases: Identifying evenly inventoried island parasitoid faunas (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) worldwide

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 72-82

  Santos, Ana M C ^a,b   Jones, Owen R ^a,c   Quicke, Donald L J ^a,d   Hortal, Joaquin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity databases; Biogeography; Braconidae; Ichneumonidae; Islands; Sampling effort; Species area relationship; Survey biases; Taxonomic inventories

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952219315     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00079.x     Document Type: Review

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