Drivers of specialist herbivore diversity across 10 cities

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 108, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 123-130

  Herrmann, Dustin L ^a   Pearse, Ian S ^b,c   Baty, Jill H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Gall wasp; Habitat patch; Landscape; Metacommunity; Quercus lobata; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GALL WASPS; HABITAT PATCHES; LANDSCAPE; META COMMUNITIES; QUERCUS LOBATA; URBAN ECOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

DECIDUOUS TREE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD WEB; GALL INSECT; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORE; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION; PATCH SIZE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WASP;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; QUERCUS LOBATA;

CYNIPIDAE; QUERCUS LOBATA;

EID: 84867567668     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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