Macrofungal taxa and human population in Italy's regions

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 473-485

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Zotti, Mirca ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Fungal checklist; Human disturbance; Land use patterns; Macroecology; Population density; Reserve selection; Spatial autocorrelation; Species area relationship; Study grain

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; FUNGUS; HOMINID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE; MACROECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TAXONOMY; URBANIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 59149093796     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9511-4     Document Type: Article

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