Habitat fragmentation may not matter to species diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1624, 2007, Pages 2409-2412

  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; Fisher's alpha; Habitat loss; Island biogeography; Species area curves; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SCRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TENEBRIO;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 34548737098     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0674     Document Type: Article

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