Stability, ephemerality and dispersal ability: Microarthropod assemblages on fungal sporophores

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-131

  O'Connell, Tadhg ^a   Bolger, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acari; Collembola; Diversity; Dividedness; Functional groups; Hierarchy; Incidence functions; Nestedness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNGI; MICROARTHROPOD FAUNA; NESTEDNESS; SPOROPHORE;

ACARI; COLLEMBOLA; FUNGI; HETEROBASIDION; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM; HYPHOLOMA FASCICULARE;

EID: 0030803788     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0144     Document Type: Article

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