Associations between wasp communities and forest structure: Do strong local patterns hold across landscapes?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 656-662

  Lassau, Scott A ^a,b   Hochuli, Dieter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogates; Forest landscapes; Habitat complexity; Predictive responses; Wasp community patterns

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FIELD SURVEY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE; NDVI; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIDEOGRAPHY; WASP;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34547662731     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01751.x     Document Type: Article

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