Ecological mechanisms underlying arthropod species diversity in grasslands

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-36

  Joern, Anthony ^a   Laws, Angela N ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fire grazing interactions; landscape fragmentation; network and food web dynamics; spatial heterogeneity; species energy relationships

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FOOD CHAIN;

EID: 84870316372     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153540     Document Type: Review

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