The impact of high-altitude ski pistes on ground-dwelling arthropods in the Alps

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1853-1870

  Negro, Matteo ^a   Isaia, Marco ^a   Palestrini, Claudia ^a   Schoenhofer, Axel ^b   Rolando, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ecosystem functioning; Grasshoppers; Ground beetles; Opilionids; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTHROPOD; BIOINDICATOR; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPORTS FACILITY; TREELINE; VEGETATION COVER;

ALPS;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 77952954545     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9808-y     Document Type: Article

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