Towards a standardized and optimized protocol for rapid biodiversity assessments: Spider species richness and assemblage composition in two Savanna vegetation types

African Zoology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-290

  Muelelwa, M I ^a   Foord, S H ^a   Dippenaar Schoeman, A S ^b,c   Stam, E M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^b PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d National Zoological Gardens of South Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arachnida; Araneae; checklist; Inventory completeness; SANSA; Savanna Biome; species richness estimates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SPIDER; VEGETATION TYPE;

LIMPOPO; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTPANSBERG;

ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE;

EID: 78650572860     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3377/004.045.0206     Document Type: Article

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