Regional Insect Inventories Require Long Time, Extensive Spatial Sampling and Good Will

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Fattorini, Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES ACCUMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENTOMOLOGY; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84876429436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062118     Document Type: Article

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