Effect of habitat patch characteristics on abundance and diversity of insects in an agricultural landscape

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-205

  Fahrig, Lenore ^a   Jonsen, Ian ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agro ecosystem; Insect density; Insect richness; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Meta population; Patch age; Patch isolation; Patch size; Resource concentration hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001529950     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900015     Document Type: Article

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