Although species coverage is higher for North America (643 species, 93% of fauna) than for Argentina (500 species, 51% of fauna), sample sizes are high enough in both regions to provide a good sense of overall patterns of COI variation.
The benthic macroinvertebrate fauna was sampled using a standard surber sampler (30 × 30 cm and 250-μm mesh) as explained by Tomanova et al. (2008).
Macrophytes, sediments, and fauna were sampled at two locations in the Puck Bay from vegetated bottoms and bare sands five times in one year.
We attempt to test this notion by reconstructing the fauna for sample areas of the Karoo from farm names, plant common names and travellers records, and by examining the flora of these areas for evidence of co-evolution with large herbivores.
That said, I would suggest that the article title, "The reproductive season of scleractinian corals in Socotra, Yemen" is too broad, given that only ~5% of the scleractinian fauna was sampled.
The occurrence of warm-water fauna in all samples younger than approximately 1.8 Ma containing preserved radiolarians from ODP site 797 indicates that the TWC probably began to flow into the Japan Sea at that time (Alexandrovich 1992).
Soil fauna abundance was sampled each year after the cereal crop was harvested, and included microfauna (nematodes), mesofauna (mites) and macrofauna (earthworms).
Individual-based rarefaction curves based on both named species and BINs indicate that the fauna is well sampled.
The helminth fauna among these sampled red deer was enumerated and species were identified based on morphology.
Although no fauna turned up in samples from Antarctica--probably because they can't take the icy temperatures--that may change, he warns, as Antarctic waters are expected to heat up 2°C over the next century.
