A test of the species-people correlation for stream macro-invertebrates in european countries

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1842-1849

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Fontaneto, Diego ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal biodiversity; Biogeography; Boltzmann transformed temperature; Entomology; Europe; Fauna Europaea; Freshwater ecosystems; Human beings; Macroecology; Spatial autocorrelation; Species area relationship; Taxa co occurrence

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS;

EID: 63249136105     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-2047.1     Document Type: Article

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