Distribution and dynamics of surface-dwelling spiders across a pasture-plantation ecotone

Ecography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-40

  Downie, Iain S ^a   Coulson, John C ^a   Butterfield, Jennifer E L ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS PLANTATION; ECOTONE; PASTURE-PLANTATION ECOTONE; SPIDER;

EID: 0030304966     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1996.tb00152.x     Document Type: Article

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