Assessment of richness estimation methods on macroinvertebrate communities of mountain ponds in Castilla y León (Spain)

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-110

  Martínez Sanz, Carlos ^a   García Criado, Francisco ^a   Aláez, Camino Fernández ^a   Aláez, Margarita Fernández ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Estimators; Macroinvertebrate; Mountain ponds; Nonparametric estimators; Richness

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POND; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CASTILLA Y LEON; SPAIN;

EID: 77953865515     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2010008     Document Type: Article

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