This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure
biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to …

Wetlands are valuable ecosystems because they harbor a huge biodiversity and provide key
services to societies. When natural or human factors degrade wetlands, ecological …

Underwater video has become an important tool for monitoring reef fish populations
worldwide because it is nonextractive and not strongly selective. A variety of approaches …

Summary 1 Species richness is the most widely used biodiversity metric, but cannot be
observed directly as, typically, some species are overlooked. Imperfect detectability must …

In this paper, the role played by habitat diversity in the landscape on species richness and
on the stability of farmland bird communities was investigated. Species richness was …

This chapter deals with the estimation of occupancy as a state variable to assess the status
of, and track changes in, species distributions when sampling with camera traps. Much of the …

Spatial variation in species composition is one of the most fundamental and conspicuous
features of the natural world. Measures of compositional differentiation and similarity …

Summary 1 Species richness is the most widely used measure for the diversity of a
biological community. Unfortunately, the number of species counted is usually a biased …

I compared understory bird community structure and composition among primary, slightly
disturbed, and moderately disturbed forest in the East Usambara Mountains in Tanzania …

Road verges should play a crucial role as a refuge for native flora and fauna in human
dominated landscapes. However, the influence of construction choices, such as plantation of …