Decisions on Temporal Sampling Protocol Influence the Detection of Ecological Patterns

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 378-385

  Banks Leite, Cristina ^a,b   Ewers, Robert M ^b   Pimentel, Rafael G ^a   Metzger, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Brazil; Mist nets; Protocol; Sample size; Seasonality; Understory birds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; UNDERSTORY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES;

EID: 84860551949     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00801.x     Document Type: Article

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