The influence of scale and patchiness on spider diversity in a semi-arid environment

Ecography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 395-404

  Whitehouse, Mary E A ^a,b   Shochat, Eyal ^a,c   Shachak, Moshe ^a   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT MOSAIC; PATCHINESS; SCALE EFFECT; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

ISRAEL;

ARANEAE;

EID: 0036348882     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.250402.x     Document Type: Article

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