Landscape vs. local habitat scale influences to insect communities from tallgrass prairie remnants

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1306-1320

  Stoner, Kristal J L ^a,b   Joern, Anthony ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod conservation; Coccinellidae; Curculionidae; Fragmentation; Insect communities; Landscapes; Lepidoptera; LISREL algorithm; Orthoptera; Structural equation modeling; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSECT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRAIRIE; SCALE EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARTHROPODA; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; UNGULATA;

EID: 6344249167     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5112     Document Type: Article

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