Big and aerial invaders: dominance of exotic spiders in burned New Zealand tussock grasslands

Biological Invasions

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2311-2322

  Malumbres Olarte, Jagoba ^a   Barratt, Barbara I P ^b,c   Vink, Cor J ^d,e   Paterson, Adrian M ^e   Cruickshank, Robert H ^e   Ferguson, Colin M ^b,c   Barton, Diane M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c Better Border Biosecurity   (New Zealand)

^d CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

^e LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ballooning; Disturbance; Fire management; Recolonisation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COLONIZATION; GRASSLAND; INVASIVE SPECIES; SPIDER;

NEW ZEALAND;

ARANEAE;

EID: 84911995406     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0666-5     Document Type: Article

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