Species richness measures fail in resolving diversity patterns of speciose forest moth assemblages

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2499-2508

  Fiedler, Konrad ^a   Truxa, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diversity indexes; Ecological resolution; Fisher's alpha; Sampling effects; Shannon's diversity; Species richness estimators

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDEX; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; MOTH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAPPING;

AUSTRIA;

AGARISTINAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84865422344     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0311-5     Document Type: Article

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