Effects of habitat disturbance can be subtle yet significant: Biodiversity of hawkmoth-assemblages (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Southeast-Asia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 465-486

  Beck, Jan ^a,c   Kitching, Ian J ^b   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Borneo; Community ecology; Habitat disturbance; Life history; Moths; Multidimensional scaling; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; MOTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

LEPIDOPTERA; MACROGLOSSINAE (MOTHS); SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 33644939574     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-0306-6     Document Type: Article

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