How to monitor ecological communities cost-efficiently: The example of plant-pollinator networks

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2092-2101

  Hegland, Stein Joar ^a   Dunne, Jennifer ^b,c   Nielsen, Anders ^d   Memmott, Jane ^e  

^a Fjordane University College   (Norway)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Habitat management; Mutualism; Network; Plant pollinator interaction; Sampling effort

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INSECT; MUTUALISM; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; TAXONOMY;

NORWAY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77955092807     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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