Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands

The species richness and relative abundance of faunas in defined areas are the raw materials in biodiversity science. The research methodology to acquire these data is inventory, and inventory quality depends on a number of parameters, for example collecting methods, season, and collector experience...

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Autores principales: Coscarón, María del Carmen, Melo, María Cecilia, Coddington, Jonathan A., Corronca, José Antonio
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/140464
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language Inglés
topic Ciencias Naturales
Biodiversity estimation
Collecting methods
Heteroptera
Iberá watershed
spellingShingle Ciencias Naturales
Biodiversity estimation
Collecting methods
Heteroptera
Iberá watershed
Coscarón, María del Carmen
Melo, María Cecilia
Coddington, Jonathan A.
Corronca, José Antonio
Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
topic_facet Ciencias Naturales
Biodiversity estimation
Collecting methods
Heteroptera
Iberá watershed
description The species richness and relative abundance of faunas in defined areas are the raw materials in biodiversity science. The research methodology to acquire these data is inventory, and inventory quality depends on a number of parameters, for example collecting methods, season, and collector experience. To assess the ability of rapid inventory techniques to estimate local richness seven collectors sampled the fauna of true bugs in the Ibera watershed (Corrientes, Argentina) with seven methods during early spring, summer, and late summer (December, May, September) of 1 year. Twenty-three families, 225 spp. and 4,678 adults were found. We also applied various statistical techniques to correct the observed data for undersampling bias, which suggested the lower bound of annual heteropteran species richness at Pellegrini was about 250–300 species. Among heteropteran families, the particular inventory methodology was especially efficient in sampling Miridae.
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author Coscarón, María del Carmen
Melo, María Cecilia
Coddington, Jonathan A.
Corronca, José Antonio
author_facet Coscarón, María del Carmen
Melo, María Cecilia
Coddington, Jonathan A.
Corronca, José Antonio
author_sort Coscarón, María del Carmen
title Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
title_short Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
title_full Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
title_fullStr Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
title_full_unstemmed Estimating biodiversity : A case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
title_sort estimating biodiversity : a case study on true bugs in argentinian wetlands
publishDate 2009
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