The species-area relationship in centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda): A comparison between Mediterranean island groups

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 146-159

  Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail ^a   Tjørve, Even ^b   Gentile, Gabriele ^c   Minelli, Alessandro ^d   Mylonas, Moisis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aegean archipelago; Akaike's information criterion; Breakpoint regression models; Crete; Cyclades; Dodecanese; Italy; Sardinia; Sicily

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; ARTHROPOD; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 83155192929     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01784.x     Document Type: Article

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