Intraspecific aggregation decreases local species diversity of arthropods

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3376-3383

  Veech, Joseph A ^a,b   Crist, Thomas O ^a   Summerville, Keith S ^a,c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Intraspecific aggregation; Macroecology; Neutral model; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ARTHROPOD; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTHROPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 1342330864     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-3127     Document Type: Article

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