The terrestrial micro-arthropod fauna of the South Sandwich Islands

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 597-609

  Convey, P ^a   Greenslade, P ^b   Pugh, P J A ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acari; Antarctica; Collembola; Colonization; South Sandwich Islands

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FAUNA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS;

ACARI; ALASKOZETES; ALASKOZETES ANTARCTICUS; ALOSKOZETES; ALOSKOZETES ANTARCTICUS; ARCHISOTOMA; ARCHISOTOMA BRUCEI; ARTHROPODA; AYERSACARUS; AYERSACARUS TILBROOKI; CASSIDINOPSIS MACULATA; COLLEMBOLA; CRYPTOPYGUS ANTARCTICUS; CRYPTOPYGUS CAECUS; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; EUPODES; EUPODES MINUTUS; HALOZETES; HALOZETES BELGICAE; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; NANORCHESTES; NANORCHESTES NIVALIS; PILELLUS; PILELLUS RYKEI;

EID: 0034035707     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002229300299462     Document Type: Article

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