Sampling plant diversity and rarity at landscape scales: Importance of sampling time in species detectability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Nielsen, Scott E ^a   Grainger, Tess N ^b   Kohler, Monica ^c   Chipchar, Tim ^c   Farr, Daniel R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Alberta Innovates Technology Futures   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANADA; CROPLAND; FOREST; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PLANT; PROCEDURES; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

ALBERTA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PLANTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899683119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095334     Document Type: Article

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