Volume 8 - Manual on Field Recording Techniques and Protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories

		Editors:	Jutta Eymann, Jérôme Degreef, Christoph Häuser, Juan Carlos Monje, Yves Samyn & Didier VandenSpiegel
		Date of publication:	2010
		Number of pages:	part 1: i-iv, 1-330; part 2: i-iv: 331-653
		Language:	English
		Audience	beginning and advanced researchers involved in inventory and monitoring of biodiversity
		Geographic scope:	worldwide
		Taxonomic scope:	vertebrates, invertebrates, plants
		Habitat type:	terrestrial and marine ecosystems
		Price (hard copy):	40,19 €
		Price (CD Rom)	2,2 €

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Chapter 1 - Background and aim of this manual

Ch. Häuser, J. Degreef, X. Eekhout, J. Eymann, J.C. Monje, K. Riede, D. VandenSpiegel, J. Van Goethem and Y. Samyn

Chapter 2 - EDIT and the ATBI+M concept with experiences from pilot sites

S. Tillier, Ch. Häuser, A. Hoffmann, C. Monje, and G. Lancelot

Chapter 3 - Challenges and solutions for planning and implementing large-scale biotic inventories

M. Leponce, Ch. Meyer, Ch. Häuser, Ph. Bouchet, J. Delabie, L. Weigt, and Y. Basset

Chapter 4 - Individual records and the associated data: information standards and protocols

A. Kroupa and D. Remsen

Chapter 5 - Bioaccoustics approaches in biodiversity inventories

M.K. Obrist, G. Pavan, J. Sueur, K. Riede, D. Llusia and R. Márquez

Chapter 6 - Camera-trapping for inventorying terrestrial vertebrates

F. Rovero, M. Tobler, and J. Sanderson

Chapter 7 - Organizing specimen and tissue preservation techniques in the field for subsequent molecular analyses

B. Gemeinholzer, I. Rey, K. Weising, M. Grundmann, A.N. Müllner, H. Zetsche, G. Droege, O. Seberg, G. Petersen, D.M. Rawson and L.A. Weigt

Chapter 8 - Sampling arthropods from the canopy by insecticidal knock-down

A. Floren

Chapter 9 - Soil and litter sampling, including MSS

M. Alonso-Zarazaga and Teresa Domingo

Chapter 10 - Sampling continental freshwater

A. Garcia-Valdecasas, M. Aboal, S. Cirujano, S. Iepure, D. Jaume, H. Proctor and J. Luis Velasco

Chapter 11 - Sampling the Marine Realm

J. Templado, G. Paulay, A. Gittenberger and Ch. Meyer

Chapter 12 - Collecting the forgotten kingdom: Guidelines for the field mycologist with emphasis on the larger fungi

B. Buyck, Th. Læssøe, M. Meyer and V. Hofstetter

Chapter 13 - Sampling of bryophytes

B. Papp, A. Vanderpoorten and R. Gradstein

Chapter 14 - Methods for sampling higher plants

E. Zippel, Th. Wilhalm, and C. Thiel-Egenter

Chapter 15 - Sampling insects: general techniques, strategies and remarks

P . Grootaert, M. Pollet, W. Dekoninck and C. van Achterberg

Chapter 16 - Light traps for insects

A. Steiner and Ch. Häuser

Chapter 17 - Flight interception traps for arthropods

C. van Achterberg, M. R. Shaw and P. Grootaert

Chapter 18 - Preserving and Specimen Handling: Insects and other Invertebrates

L. Krogmann and J. Holstein

Chapter 19 - Field Methods and Techniques for Monitoring Mammals

A. Hoffmann, J. Decher, F. Rovero, J. Schaer, C. Voigt and G. Wibbelt

Chapter 20 - Sampling reptiles and amphibians

X. Eekhout

Chapter 21 - Tips for bird surveys and censuses in countries without existing monitoring schemes

F. Woog, S. Renner and J. Fjeldsa

Chapter 22 - Preservation of freshwater fishes in the field

D. Neumann

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