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  • Assessing biodiversity 'sampling packages': how similar are arthropod assemblages in different tropical rainforests?

    Author(s)
    Kitching, RL
    Li, DQ
    Stork, NE
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kitching, Roger L.
    Stork, Nigel E.
    Year published
    2001
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    Abstract
    Arthropod sampling protocols have been applied to four areas of undisturbed rainforest in Australia and Borneo at sites located between 28ࠓ and 4ࠎ. Seven different trapping methods have been used in each case following a strictly comparable protocol applied during single wet-season surveys at each location. A number of large scale patterns across sites correlated with latitude, altitude and/or biogeographical history are evident at the ordinal level. The results are used to evaluate two key ideas in biodiversity survey. The first tests questions of the constancy of particular trap types in terms of the target animals. The ...
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    Arthropod sampling protocols have been applied to four areas of undisturbed rainforest in Australia and Borneo at sites located between 28ࠓ and 4ࠎ. Seven different trapping methods have been used in each case following a strictly comparable protocol applied during single wet-season surveys at each location. A number of large scale patterns across sites correlated with latitude, altitude and/or biogeographical history are evident at the ordinal level. The results are used to evaluate two key ideas in biodiversity survey. The first tests questions of the constancy of particular trap types in terms of the target animals. The second attempts to design an efficient multiple method sampling 'package' for rapid biodiversity assessment. Across all sites similar traps behaved in a similar manner in terms of the profile of arthropods that they caught although Malaise traps and pitfalls are particularly 'constant' in this regard. Subsets of both trapping methods and target taxa are identified which will maximise the opportunities for detecting between site differences.
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    Journal Title
    Biodiversity and Conservation
    Volume
    10
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016627220773
    Subject
    Ecology
    History, heritage and archaeology
    Ecological applications
    Environmental management
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/3600
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