Large-scale experimental landscapes reveal distinctive effects of patch shape and connectivity on arthropod communities

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1361-1372

  Orrock, John L ^a   Curler, Gregory R ^b   Danielson, Brent J ^c   Coyle, David R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Coleoptera; Corridor; Diversity; Evenness; Fragmentation; Hymenoptera; Orthoptera; Patch shape

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTHROPOD; CLEARCUTTING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVITY; EDGE EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCH SIZE; SAMPLING; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 80855130648     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9656-5     Document Type: Article

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