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Title: Termite (Isoptera) sampling from soil: Handsorting or Kempson extraction?
Authors: Silva, Everaldo G.
Martius, Christopher
Issue Date: 2000
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Sociobiology
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 36, Número 1, Pags. 209-216
Abstract: Complete assessments of termite assemblages in tropical rain forests are notoriously troublesome. We show that an automated method for the extraction of soil fauna from the soil, the so-called Kempson extractor, can be successfully applied to reduce sample processing time to about half the time (56%) needed for handsorting of similar samples, with no detectable trade-off in the variability of recorded individual numbers and in the frequency of samples with termites.
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