Effect of fragmentation, habitat loss and within-patch habitat characteristics on ant assemblages in semi-arid woodlands of eastern Australia

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 731-745

  Debuse, Valerie J ^a,b   King, Judith ^a   House, Alan P N ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional groups; Landscape; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PITFALL TRAP; SEMIARID REGION; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 34247628512     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9068-0     Document Type: Article

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