A critique of the dragonfly delusion hypothesis: Why sampling exuviae does not avoid bias

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 398-402

  Bried, Jason T ^a   D'Amico, Frank ^b   Samways, Michael J ^c  

^a Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Detection probability; Monitoring; Odonata; Sampling issues; Survey bias; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866358279     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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