Diversity of arboreal spiders in primary and disturbed tropical forests

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 323-333

  Floren, Andreas ^a   Deeleman Reinhold, Christa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fogging; Forest isolation; Fragmentation; Recolonization; Species source

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA;

EID: 30344459379     PISSN: 01618202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1636/05-22.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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