The use of invertebrates to detect small-scale habitat heterogeneity and its application to restoration practices

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 179-199

  Pik, Anthony J ^a   Dangerfield, J M ^a   Bramble, Roger A ^a   Angus, Craig ^a   Nipperess, David A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management and restoration; Ants; Ecological monitoring and assessment; Invertebrate assemblages; Rapid biodiversity assessment; Taxonomic sufficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER;

MORPHOSPECIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANT; BIOMONITORING; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ANT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SAMPLE; TAXONOMY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA;

FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036128636     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014444032375     Document Type: Article

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