Biotic integrity of the arthropod communities in the natural forests of Azores

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2883-2901

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a   Borges, Paulo A V ^b   Gaspar, Clara ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Endemic species; IBI; Invasive species; Island ecosystems; Macaronesia; Metrics; Multimetric index; Naturalness; Scalability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTHROPOD; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND; NATURALNESS; NATURE RESERVE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 34548392731     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9078-x     Document Type: Article

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