Environmental correlates of body size distributions of European springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola)

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 905-915

  Ulrich, Werner ^a   Fiera, Cristina ^b  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Body size distributions; Collembola; Island rule; Latitudinal gradient; Longitudinal gradient; Macroecology; Spatial autoregression

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BODY SIZE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXTINCTION; MACROECOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EUROPE;

COLLEMBOLA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77958496930     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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