Can higher taxa be used as a surrogate for species-level data in biodiversity surveys of litter/soil insects?

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-92

  Rosser, Neil ^a,b   Eggleton, Paul ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Higher taxa; Insects; Richness; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; INSECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY;

COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84855473432     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-011-9395-6     Document Type: Article

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