Forest modification affects diversity (but not dynamics) of speciose tropical pyraloid moth communities

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 615-627

  Fiedler, Konrad ^a,b   Schulze, Christian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Community composition; Habitat disturbance; Malaysia; Moths; Pyraloidea; Temporal variability; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; MOTH; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; MOUNT KINABALU; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

ALGAE; EOOPHYLA; LEPIDOPTERA; MARTES PENNANTI; PYRALIDAE; PYRALOIDEA;

EID: 12244311492     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00355.x     Document Type: Article

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