Habitat area affects arthropod communities directly and indirectly through top predators

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 359-366

  Östman, Örjan ^a,b   W Griffin, Nicholas ^a   L Strasburg, Jared ^a   A Brisson, Jennifer ^a   R Templeton, Alan ^a   M Knight, Tiffany ^a   M Chase, Jonathan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOLIAGE; LIZARD; PLANTHOPPER; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; OZARK MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; ARTHROPODA; CROTAPHYTUS; CROTAPHYTUS COLLARIS; HEMIPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34250023730     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2007.05123.x     Document Type: Article

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