Invertebrate body sizes from Marion island

Antarctic Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-143

  Mercer, Richard D ^a   Gabriel, A G A ^a   Barendse, J ^a   Marshall, D J ^b   Chown, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Body size; Collembola; Insects; Macroecology; Mites; Sub Antarctic assemblages

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; INVERTEBRATE; SUBANTARCTIC REGION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN ORTHOREOVIRUS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0034989385     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102001000219     Document Type: Article

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