The trade-off between housing density and sprawl area: Minimizing impacts to carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Ecology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Gagné, Sara A ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Development scenario; Forest fragmentation; Forest taxa; Ground beetle; Housing density; Residential development; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NATIVE SPECIES; RANGE SIZE; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; GATINEAU; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 78651508234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03635-150412     Document Type: Article

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