Effects of habitat size, vegetation cover, and surrounding land use on diptera diversity in temperate nearctic bogs

Wetlands

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-134

  Savage, Jade ^b   Wheeler, Terry A ^a   Moores, Amy M A ^a   Taillefer, Amélie Grégoire ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Community ecology; Disturbance; Fragmentation; Landscape; Peatland; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BOG; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; FLY; FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NEARCTIC REGION; SAMPLING; SPECIALIST; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION COVER;

DIPTERA; SCHIZOPHORA;

EID: 79952009004     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0133-8     Document Type: Article

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