Assessment of the diversity and abundance of terrestrial mangrove arthropods in southern New South Wales, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 451-458

  Meades, Louise ^a   Rodgerson, Louise ^a   York, Alan ^a,b   French, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Intercept trapping; Mangrove; Restricted canopy fogging; Spatial variability; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MANGROVE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 0041364551     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2002.01199.x     Document Type: Article

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