Landscape geological age explains large scale spatial trends in oribatid mite diversity

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 285-296

  Zaitsev, Andrei S ^a,b   van Straalen, Nico M ^c   Berg, Matty P ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acari; Forest vegetation type; Geological age; Landscape; Mite; Oribatida; Soil fauna diversity; Soil type; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

AGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST SOIL; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MITE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREND ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 84873715839     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9834-0     Document Type: Article

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