How small is too small for small animals? Four terrestrial arthropod species in different-sized remnant woodlands in agricultural Western Australia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 709-726

  Abensperg Traun, Max ^a   Smith, Graeme T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ants; Diet; Dispersal; Fragmentation; Scorpions; Small remnants; Termites

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; WOODLAND;

AMITERMES; AMITERMES OBEUNTIS; ANIMALIA; ARMATUS; ARTHROPODA; DREPANOTERMES; DREPANOTERMES TAMMINENSIS; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAPILLOSA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; MYRMECIA NIGRICEPS; OVIS ARIES; SCORPIONES; URODACUS; URODACUS ARMATUS;

EID: 0032990937     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008826114741     Document Type: Article

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