Millipede (Diplopoda) assemblages alter drastically by urbanisation

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 133, Issue , 2015, Pages 118-126

  Bogyó, David ^a,b   Magura, Tibor ^b   Simon, Edina ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

^c MTA DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Body size; Forest specialist species; Habitat specialist species hypothesis; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Soil elements; Synanthropic species

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

BODY SIZES; FOREST SPECIALIST SPECIES; HABITAT SPECIALIST SPECIES HYPOTHESIS; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; SOIL ELEMENT; SYNANTHROPIC SPECIES;

RURAL AREAS;

ARTHROPOD; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; SPECIALIST; URBANIZATION;

HUNGARY;

DIPLOPODA;

EID: 84908582445     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.09.014     Document Type: Article

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