Effects of plant diversity, plant productivity and habitat parameters on arthropod abundance in montane European grasslands

Ecography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-442

  Perner, Jörg ^a   Wytrykush, Carla ^a   Kahmen, Ansgar ^b   Buchmann, Nina ^b   Egerer, Ilka ^a   Creutzburg, Sylvia ^a   Odat, Nidal ^a   Audorff, Volker ^c   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Bureau for Ecological Studies   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

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

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 23144433497     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04119.x     Document Type: Article

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