Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6662, 1998, Pages 72-76

  Lawton, J H ^a   Bignell, D E ^b,g   Bolton, B ^c   Bloemers, G F ^a,c,h   Eggleton, P ^c   Hammond, P M ^c   Hodda, M ^c,i   Holt, R D ^d   Larsen, T B ^e   Mawdsley, N A ^a,c,j   Stork, N E ^c,k   Srivastava, D S ^a,l   Watt, A D ^f  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e Bush Estate ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^h CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CSIRO   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^k University of British Columbia ^*  (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; INDICATOR TAXON; INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; FOREST; MITE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

CAMEROON, MBALMAYO FOREST RESERVE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; NEMATODA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0031890663     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34166     Document Type: Article

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