Testing common habitat-based surrogates of invertebrate diversity in a semi-arid rangeland

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1147-1159

  Gollan, John R ^a   Ashcroft, Michael B ^a   Cassis, Gerasimos ^a,b   Donnelly, Andrew P ^a,c   Lassau, Scott A ^a,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Complexity; GAM; Grazing; Indicators; Watering point

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRAZING; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 67349273967     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9504-3     Document Type: Article

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