Local vs. landscape controls on diversity: A test using surface-dwelling soil macroinvertebrates of differing mobility

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-221

  Dauber, Jens ^a   Purtauf, Tobias ^a   Allspach, Andreas ^b   Frisch, Johannes ^c   Voigtländer, Karin ^d   Wolters, Volkmar ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Museum für Naturkunde ^*  (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agri environment schemes; Carabidae; Diplopoda; Formicidae; Habitat quality; Isopoda; Landscape composition; Multiscale control; Soil fauna; Staphylinidae

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SOIL BIOTA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HESSE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CARABIDAE; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; COLEOPTERA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; ISOPODA; ONISCIDEA; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 19344369628     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2005.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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