Effects of landscape connectivity on the spatial distribution of insect diversity in agricultural mosaic landscapes

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 298-307

  Diekötter, Tim ^a,b   Billeter, Regula ^a   Crist, Thomas O ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Agro ecology; Alpha ; Bees; Beta ; Carabid beetles; Conservation; Dispersal limitation; Gamma diversity; True bugs

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 41949103752     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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