Effects of urbanization on ground-dwelling spiders in forest patches, in Hungary

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 621-629

  Magura, Tibor ^a   Horváth, Roland ^b   Tóthmérész, Béla ^b  

^a UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Araneae; Disturbance; Diversity; Forest species; Fragmentation; Habitat affinity

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PITFALL TRAP; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

HUNGARY;

ARANEAE;

EID: 77952742134     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9445-6     Document Type: Article

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