Assessing the completeness of bryophytes inventories: An oceanic island as a case study (Terceira, Azorean archipelago)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2469-2484

  Aranda, Silvia C ^a,b   Gabriel, Rosalina ^a   Borges, Paulo A V ^a   Lobo, Jorge M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological databases; Collecting bias; Laurisilva; Liverworts; Macaronesia; Mosses; Sampling efficiency; Species accumulation curves

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTE; DATABASE; EVERGREEN TREE; ISLAND; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; TAXONOMY;

AZORES; PORTUGAL; TERCEIRA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 77954456573     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9854-5     Document Type: Article

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