Life-history strategies as a tool to identify conservation constraints: A case-study on ants in chalk grasslands

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 303-313

  Van Noordwijk, C G E ^a,b   Boer, Peter ^c   Mabelis, A A ^d   Verberk, Wilco C E P ^a,b   Siepel, Henk ^b,d  

^a BARGERVEEN FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Wageningen UR ^*  (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Formicidae; Habitat isolation; Microclimate; Reproduction tactic; Restoration; Species traits

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

DISPERSAL; FORMICIDAE; HABITAT ISOLATION; MICROCLIMATE; REPRODUCTION TACTIC; SPECIES TRAITS;

LIMESTONE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANT; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENERALIST; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROCLIMATE; MICROHABITAT; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SYNCHRONY;

BELGIUM; GERMANY; NETHERLANDS;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 80053226050     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.06.028     Document Type: Article

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