Improving occurrence-based rarity metrics in conservation studies by including multiple rarity cut-off points

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-168

  Leroy, Boris ^a   Petillon, Julien ^a   Gallon, Regis ^a,b   Canard, Alain ^a   Ysnel, Frederic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation scores; Management monitoring; Occurrence based rarity; Rare species; Rarity cut off points; Spiders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858280592     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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