Landscape mosaic of Araucaria forest and forest monocultures influencing understorey spider assemblages in southern Brazil

Austral Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-54

  Baldissera, Ronei ^a,d   Ganade, Gislene ^b   Brescovit, Antonio D ^c   Hartz, Sandra M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^d Fundação de Ensino Superior Da Região Centro Sul FUNDASUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Forest management; Habitat connectivity; Habitat structure; Tree monocultures

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONNECTIVITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MONOCULTURE; PATCHINESS; PLANTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

ARAUCARIA FOREST; BRAZIL; PARANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARANEAE; ARAUCARIA; EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 37849026717     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01789.x     Document Type: Article

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