How do alterations in habitat structure by an invasive grass affect salt-marsh resident spiders?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-89

  Pétillon, Julien ^a,b   Lasne, Emilien ^a   Lambeets, Kevin ^b   Canard, Alain ^a   Vernon, Philippe ^a   Ysnel, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FLOOD CONTROL; GRASS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVASIVE SPECIES; SALTMARSH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ATHERICUS;

EID: 77952704161     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.047.0201     Document Type: Article

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