Habitat management by aboriginals promotes high spider diversity on an Asian tropical island

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-94

  Tsai, Zon Ing ^a   Huang, Pao Shen ^b   Tso, I Min ^a,c  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LANYU; TAIWAN;

ARANEAE; INSECTA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 33645038566     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04425.x     Document Type: Article

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