Communities of ground-living spiders in deciduous forests: Does tree species diversity matter?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1267-1284

  Schuldt, Andreas ^a   Fahrenholz, Nadine ^a   Brauns, Mascha ^b   Migge Kleian, Sonja ^a   Platner, Christian ^a   Schaefer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Araneae; Community structure; Deciduous forest; Diversity; Spiders; Tree species

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST FLOOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HAINICH NATIONAL PARK; THURINGIA;

ARANEAE; FAGUS;

EID: 44149108942     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9330-7     Document Type: Article

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