Exclusion of tourist species from assemblages in ecological studies: a methodological approach using spiders
Abstract Background The exclusion of tourist species from samples is important to avoid bias in community analyses. However, in practice, this is a very difficult task. The commonly used methods by researchers, when the habitat of the species is not known, have several shortcomings: first, they excl...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-09-01
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Series: | Ecological Processes |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-022-00398-6 |