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Forys, Elizabeth A; Eckerd College; forysea@eckerd.edu; Allen, Craig R; University of Nebraska; allencr@unl.edu. |
Sprawling development can affect species composition by increasing the rate of invasion by non-native species, and decreasing the persistence of native species. This paper briefly reviews the scientific literature on the impacts of sprawl on biological diversity, with specific emphasis on the influence of sprawl on non-native species richness. We then explore the relationship between sprawl and biodiversity using a data set of ant species collected from 46 habitat patches located in the increasingly suburbanized Florida Keys, USA. We quantified sprawl as the proximity of roads and amount of development surrounding a habitat patch. Using bait transects, we identified 24 native and 18 non-native species of ants. Neither the overall number of native species... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Extinctions; Exurban development; Florida; Invasions; Nestedness; Sprawl. |
Ano: 2005 |
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Aukema, B.. |
Recent changes in the Dutch Heteroptera fauna (Insecta: Hemiptera) At present 610 species of Heteroptera are recorded from the Netherlands. The database of the Dutch bureau of the European Invertebrate Survey currently includes about 130 000 Dutch records (combinations of locality and species). The records, however, are strongly biased towards aquatic and semiaquatic species (72 761 records of 64 species = 1137 records/species) in comparison with terrestrial species (55 375 records of 545 species = 101 records/species). Although since about 1850 there have always been Dutch heteropterists, collecting efforts show large differences in time and place and it is for instance easy to locate both residences and favourite holiday resorts of heteropterists from... |
Tipo: Article in monograph or in proceedings |
Palavras-chave: Heteroptera; Dutch fauna; Turnover; Extinctions; New arrivals; Range changes; Global warming; 42.75. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219853 |
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