Water limitation prevails over energy in European diversity gradients of sheetweb spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 754-762

  Kumschick, Sabrina ^a   Schmidt Entling, Martin H ^a   Bacher, Sven ^b   Hickler, Thomas ^c   Entling, Wiebke ^a   Nentwig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity density; Biodiversity; Latitude; Simpson index; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; LINYPHIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 71649112398     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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