A multi-scale study of Orthoptera species richness and human population size controlling for sampling effort

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-271

  Cantarello, Elena ^a   Steck, Claude E ^b   Fontana, Paolo ^c   Fontaneto, Diego ^d   Marini, Lorenzo ^c   Pautasso, Marco ^e  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Crickets; Grasshoppers; Invertebrates; Macroecology; Scale dependence

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRICKET; GRASSHOPPER; HETEROGENEITY; MACROECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; ITALY; ORTHOPTERA; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ITALY; MUSEUMS; ORTHOPTERA; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

GRYLLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 77949423290     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0636-4     Document Type: Article

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