Using soil and litter arthropods to assess the state of rainforest restoration

Ecological Management and Restoration

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Nakamura, Akihiro ^a   Proctor, Heather ^a,b   Catterall, Carla P ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acari; Bioindicators; Colonization; Formicidae; Invertebrates; Myriapoda; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOINDICATOR; RAINFOREST; RECOLONIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ACARI; AMPHIPODA; ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; MYRIAPODA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 0038607481     PISSN: 14427001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-8903.4.s.3.x     Document Type: Article

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