Assessment of sampling approaches for a multi-taxa invertebrate survey in a South African savanna-mosaic ecosystem

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 357-370

  Lovell, S J ^a   Hamer, M L ^a   Slotow, R H ^a   Herbert, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b NATAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Inventory; Quantified method; Species accumulation; Temporal effect

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE; SAMPLING; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954150999     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02052.x     Document Type: Article

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