Across-taxa incongruence in patterns of collecting bias

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1744-1748

  Vale, Mariana M ^a   Jenkins, Clinton N ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Birds; Conservation biogeography; Linnean shortfall; Neotropics; Plants; Point data; Sampling bias; Thiessen network; Wallacean shortfall

Indexed keywords

AVES; GABAZA;

EID: 84865164631     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02750.x     Document Type: Letter

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