Arthropod colonisation of a debris-covered glacier

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 343-349

  Gobbi, Mauro ^a   Isaia, Marco ^b   de Bernardi, Fiorenza ^c  

^a MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; black glacier; carabid beetles; climate change; Miage Glacier; spiders

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; APHID; BEETLE; BOREAL FOREST; COLONIZATION; DETRITIVORY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLOBAL WARMING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VEGETATION COVER; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ALPS; ITALY; MIAGE GLACIER; VALLE D'AOSTA;

APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA;

EID: 79952097022     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610374885     Document Type: Article

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