Spatial α-diversity patterns of diverse insect taxa in Northern China: Lessons for biodiversity conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2362-2368

  Axmacher, Jan C ^a   Liu, Yunhui ^b   Wang, Changliu ^b   Li, Liangtao ^b   Yu, Zhenrong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biodiversity indicators; Cross taxon congruency; Invertebrates; Phytodiversity; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOTH; PH; PITFALL TRAP; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

ARCTIIDAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960910409     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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