Trophic group responses of ground arthropods to land-cover change and management disturbance

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 4169-4181

  Li, Fengrui ^a   Liu, Jiliang ^a   Hua, Wei ^b   Niu, Ruixue ^a   Liu, Qijun ^a   Liu, Changan ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Ground arthropod assemblages; Heihe River Basin; Land use cover change; Management disturbance; Multivariate analysis; Trophic groups

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CARNIVORE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CULTIVATION; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DETRITIVORY; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITRATE; OMNIVORY; PITFALL TRAP; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SHRUBLAND; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL TEXTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 80052149454     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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