Responses of arthropod fauna assemblages to goat grazing management in northern spanish heathlands

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 985-995

  Garcia, Rocío Rosa ^a   Jauregui, Berta M ^a   Garcia, Urcesino ^a   Osoro, Koldo ^a   Celaya, Rafael ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHNID; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; GOAT; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HEATHLAND; INSECT; PITFALL TRAP; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION COVER;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GOAT; SPAIN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ECOSYSTEM; GOATS; SPAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; CALLUNA; CAPRA HIRCUS; HEXAPODA; ULEX EUROPAEUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 69849094924     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0405     Document Type: Article

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