Testing for nestedness in the terrestrial isopods and snails of Kyklades islands (Aegean archipelago, Greece)

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 384-395

  Sfenthourakis, Spyros ^a   Giokas, Sinos ^a   Mylonas, Moysis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INVERTEBRATE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NESTEDNESS;

GREECE; KYKLADES ISLANDS;

GASTROPODA; ISOPODA;

EID: 0032839312     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00575.x     Document Type: Article

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