The use of ants and other soil and litter arthropods as bio-indicators of the impacts of rainforest clearing and subsequent land use

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-186

  Nakamura, Akihiro ^a   Catterall, Carla P ^a   House, Alan P N ^b   Kitching, Roger L ^a   Burwell, Chris J ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epigeic invertebrate; Forest clearance; Functional group; Queensland; Taxonomic sufficiency

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTHROPOD; BIOINDICATOR; CLEARCUTTING; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LAND USE; LITTER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PASTURE; RAINFOREST; SOIL FAUNA; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34147172437     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-006-9034-9     Document Type: Article

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