Large and least isolated fragments preserve habitat specialist spiders best in dry sandy grasslands in Hungary

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2139-2150

  Horváth, Roland ^a   Magura, Tibor ^b   Szinetár, Csaba ^c   Eichardt, János ^c   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Generalist species; Habitat heterogeneity; Island biogeography; Sandy grassland specialist species; Species richness

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; HABITAT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER;

HUNGARY;

ARANEAE;

EID: 84883296519     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0439-y     Document Type: Article

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