A rapid assessment of landscape biodiversity using diversity profiles of arthropod morphospecies

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 209-223

  Hackman, Kwame O ^a   Gong, Peng ^a   Venevsky, Sergey ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Biodiversity; Conservation; Diversity; Diversity profile; Land use; Landscape; Morphospecies; Species; Surrogate

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURROGATE METHOD;

GHANA; WESTERN REGION;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 84983751464     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0440-4     Document Type: Article

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