Two groups of epigeic arthropods differ in colonising of piedmont quarries: The necessity of multi-taxa and life-history traits approaches in the monitoring studies

Community Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-184

  Tropek, R ^a,b   Spitzer, L ^a,b,c   Konvicka, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Regional Museum Vsetin   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Araneae; Bioindicators; Carabidae; Monitoring studies; Post industrial habitats

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; BIOTOPE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIMESTONE; PIEDMONT; QUARRY; REFUGE; SPIDER; SUBSTRATE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 57649123360     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.9.2008.2.6     Document Type: Article

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