Integrating multiple scales in rarity assessments of invertebrate taxa

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 794-803

  Leroy, Boris ^a   Canard, Alain ^a   Ysnel, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Management monitoring; Occurrence data; Rare species; Rarity hotspots; Spiders; Western Palearctic

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; PALEARCTIC ECOZONE; RARITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPIDER; TAXONOMY;

FRANCE;

ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879138635     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12040     Document Type: Article

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