High mobility reduces beta-diversity among orthopteran communities - implications for conservation

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-45

  Marini, Lorenzo ^a,b   Öckinger, Erik ^b   Battisti, Andrea ^a   Bommarco, Riccardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning; Agri environment scheme; Alps; Dispersal ability; Grassland; Habitat management; Hay meadow; Insect conservation; Orthoptera; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855755907     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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