Sampling Devices and Sampling Design for Aquatic Insects

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 186-220

  Blaustein, Leon ^a   Spencer, Matthew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Sampling design; Sampling devices; Sampling efficiency; Sampling errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983082763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470750513.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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