Arthropod monitoring for fine-scale habitat analysis: A case study of the El Segundo sand dunes

Environmental Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 445-452

  Mattoni, Rudi ^a   Longcore, Travis ^a   Novotny, Vojtech ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Canonical correspondence analysis; Cluster analysis; Correspondence analysis; Ecological monitoring; Restoration; Revegetation

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; TAXONOMY;

BIOMARKERS; ECOSYSTEMS; REVEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARTHROPOD; DUNE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAMPLING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; VEGETATION;

UNITED STATES;

ARENA; ARTHROPODA;

EID: 0034003521     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679910035     Document Type: Article

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