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Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat — Soil and Litter

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The extraction methods described here can be used not only with soil and with plant and animal debris, litter and dung, but also with plant material collected by suction apparatus or other means, the nests of vertebrates and the mud from ponds and rivers. The actual methods for obtaining the samples from these other habitats are discussed in Chapters 4 and 6.

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Southwood, T.R.E. (1978). Absolute Population Estimates by Sampling a Unit of Habitat — Soil and Litter. In: Ecological Methods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5809-8_5

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