Butterfly and grasshopper diversity patterns in humid Mediterranean grasslands: The roles of disturbance and environmental factors

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 807-818

  Kati, Vassiliki ^a   Zografou, Konstantina ^a   Tzirkalli, Elli ^a   Chitos, Theodoros ^b   Willemse, Luc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Goritsa Koutseliou   (Greece)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Indicators; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Lepidoptera; Orthoptera; Vascular plants; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOINDICATOR; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; MICROHABITAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT; WETLAND;

GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

CAELIFERA; CHORTHIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84869105989     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-012-9467-2     Document Type: Article

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