Sampling forest canopy arthropod biodiversity with three novel minimal-cost trap designs

Australian Journal of Entomology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-21

  Bar Ness, Yoav D ^a   Mcquillan, Peter B ^a   Whitman, Melissa ^b   Junker, Robert R ^c   Cracknell, Matthew ^a   Barrows, Abigail ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Bark sampling; Eucalyptus obliqua; Malaise flight intercept trap; Sticky trap; Trunk crawl trap

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS OBLIQUA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84857463858     PISSN: 13266756     EISSN: 14406055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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