Variation in arthropod communities in response to urbanization: Seven years of arthropod monitoring in a desert city

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 383-399

  Bang, Christofer ^a   Faeth, Stanley H ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Diversity; Monitoring; Precipitation; Remnant; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); URBAN PLANNING;

ARTHROPODS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DIVERSITY; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; REMNANT; TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION; URBANIZATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESERT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOMEOWNER; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PITFALL TRAP; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 80054871766     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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