Effects of interactive scale-dependent variables on beetle diversity patterns in a semi-arid agricultural landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 687-703

  Yaacobi, Gal ^a   Ziv, Yaron ^a   Rosenzweig, Michael L ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Fragmentation; GIS; Habitat variability; Landscape heterogeneity; Patch size; Path analysis; Remote sensing; Species diversity; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEETLE; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; PATCH DYNAMICS; PATCH SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 34247628513     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9061-7     Document Type: Article

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