Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b   Pekár, Stano ^c   Jocqué, Rudy ^d   Coddington, Jonathan A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; LAND BIOME; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREY SELECTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM;

ARANEAE; PLOCEINAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; SPIDERS;

EID: 79959682118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021710     Document Type: Article

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