Biodiversity and temporal variations in the abundance of cursorial spiders of a cotton fields at Faisalabad

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-131

  Mushtaq, Shakila ^a   Beg, Mirza Azhar ^a   Aziz, Saiqa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cotton; Dominant species; Richness indices; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COTTON; SPIDER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PAKISTAN;

ARANEAE; EVIPPA BANARENSIS; GNAPHOSA; GNAPHOSA POONAENSIS; GNAPHOSIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE; NERIENE; PARDOSA; PARDOSA BIRMANICA; PARDOSA MUKUNDI; PARDOSA SONGOSA; PARDOSA SUMATRANA; PARDOSA TIMIDA; ZELOTES; ZELOTES SATARENSIS;

EID: 0043198281     PISSN: 00309923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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