Micro-arthropod communities under human disturbance: is taxonomic aggregation a valuable tool for detecting multivariate change? Evidence from Mediterranean soil oribatid coenoses

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-53

  Caruso, Tancredi ^a   Migliorini, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Multivariate analysis; Oribatid mites; Soil; Taxonomic aggregation

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MITE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 33745743710     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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