Top predators as indicators for species richness? Prey species are just as useful

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 987-991

  Roth, Tobias ^a,b,c   Weber, Darius ^a  

^a Hintermann and Weber SA   (Switzerland)

^b Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Indicator species; Parus; Predictor; Raptor; Surrogate; Switzerland; Tit

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; PASSERINE; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

AVES; PARUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 42949118206     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01435.x     Document Type: Article

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