Tree diversity drives abundance and spatiotemporal β-diversity of true bugs (Heteroptera)

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 772-782

  Sobek, Stephanie ^a,d   Goßner, Martin M ^b   Scherber, Christoph ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^c   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional groups; Habitat heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GUILD; HETEROGENEITY; INSECT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTHROPODA; FAGUS; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 70449445709     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01132.x     Document Type: Article

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