How to evaluate and reduce sampling effort for ants

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 547-559

  Tista, Melanie ^a   Fiedler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ants; Community structures; Pitfall traps; Sampling methods; Species numbers; Winkler litter extraction

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT TYPE; PITFALL TRAP; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRIA;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79960073272     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-010-9350-y     Document Type: Article

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