Urban arthropod communities: Added value or just a blend of surrounding biodiversity?

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 347-361

  Sattler, Thomas ^a   Obrist, Martin K ^a   Duelli, Peter ^a   Moretti, Marco ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Alien; Community composition; Forest; Gamma diversity; Trophic guilds

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

ALIEN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST; GAMMA DIVERSITY; TROPHIC GUILDS;

URBAN GROWTH;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GUILD; ORDINATION; POLLINATOR; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN SITE; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS;

SWITZERLAND;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BUPRESTIDAE; CARABIDAE; CERAMBYCIDAE; NEUROPTERA;

EID: 80054853277     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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