Effect of land disturbance and stress on species traits of ground beetle assemblages

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1112-1129

  Ribera, Ignacio ^a   Dolédec, Sylvain ^b   Downie, Iain S ^a   Foster, Garth N ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Agricultural systems; Body size; Carabid beetles; Disturbance; Functional groups; Habitat templet; Land management; Life traits; Multivariate analysis; Stress; Three table analysis

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0035055382     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1112:EOLDAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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