Impact of forest disturbance and land use change on soil and litter arthropod assemblages in tropical rainforest margins

Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 147-163

  Migge Kleian, Sonja ^a   Woltmann, Lars ^a   Anas, Iswandi ^b   Schulz, Wenke ^a   Steingrebe, Andrea ^a   Schaefer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

ants; cacao plantations; disturbance; forest conversion; litter arthropods; litter habitat; microarthropods; moisture; rainforest; shade trees; soil fauna; spiders; temperature

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EXTRACTION; LAND USE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TIMBER; TROPICS;

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM; ANIMAL POPULATIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; FOREST DISTURBANCES; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85108403604     PISSN: 18635520     EISSN: 18635539     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30290-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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