The conservation value of farmland ponds: Predicting water beetle assemblages using vascular plants as a surrogate group

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1125-1133

  Gioria, Margherita ^a   Schaffers, André ^b   Bacaro, Giovanni ^c   Feehan, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co correspondence analysis; Conservation planning; Cross taxon congruence; Freshwater biodiversity; Plant community; Predictive canonical correspondence analysis; Surrogate taxon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POND; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT; WETLAND;

IRELAND;

COLEOPTERA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77951022310     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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