Does urbanization decrease diversity in ground beetle (Carabidae) assemblages?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-26

  Magura, Tibor ^a   Lövei, Gábor L ^b   Tóthmérész, Béla ^c  

^a UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Disturbance; Diversity; Fragmentation; Globenet project; Scalable diversity comparison; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SUBURBAN AREA; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; EUROPE; JAPAN;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 72549084920     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00499.x     Document Type: Article

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