The adequacy of collecting techniques for estimating species richness of grassland invertebrates

@article{Standen2000TheAO,
  title={The adequacy of collecting techniques for estimating species richness of grassland invertebrates},
  author={Valerie Standen},
  journal={Journal of Applied Ecology},
  year={2000},
  volume={37},
  pages={884-893},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:42048141}
}
  • V. Standen
  • Published 1 October 2000
  • Environmental Science
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
Both pitfall traps and SW/DV samples are needed to estimate species richness in grasslands for all taxa except Heteroptera, Homoptera and Lycosidae and more specimens were required in one or other sample for the remaining taxa.
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