Designing and Testing Sampling Protocols to Estimate Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems

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BiodiversitySampling (signal processing)EcosystemEnvironmental scienceTropicsEnvironmental resource managementEcologyGeographyComputer scienceBiology

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Year: 1991
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                                    Jonathan A. Coddington, 
                                
                                    Charles E. Griswold, 
                                
                                    Dino Adler de Queiroz Silva
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1991). 
                            Designing and Testing Sampling Protocols to Estimate Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems. 
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