Mapping the biodiversity of tropical insects: Species richness and inventory completeness of African sphingid moths

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 586-595

  Ballesteros Mejia, Liliana ^a   Kitching, Ian J ^b   Jetz, Walter ^c   Nagel, Peter ^a   Beck, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co kriging interpolation; Hawkmoths; Lepidoptera; Sampling effort; Spatial pattern; Sphingidae; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MOTH; SAMPLING; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 84876301984     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12039     Document Type: Article

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