Arthropod assemblages in epiphyte mats of Costa Rican cloud forests

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 202-210

  Yanoviak, Stephen P ^a   Nadkarni, Nalini M ^a   Solano J , Rodrigo ^b  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory ^*

Author keywords

Abundance; Disturbance; Tropical cloud forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; CLOUD FOREST; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EPIPHYTE; FAUNISTICS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; SEASONALITY; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE; PUNTARENAS;

ARTHROPODA; COSTA (OSTRACODE); FORMICIDAE; SOLENOPSIS;

EID: 33846982264     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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