Biodiversity integrity index: An illustration using ants in Western Australia

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Biodiversity integrity index: An illustration using ants in Western Australia

Although Western Australia is a relatively unpopulated region, considerable areas of native vegetation have been modified by agricultural clearing, rangeland grazing, urbanization, road construction, and mining. Ant diversity is reduced and community composition changed by each of these land uses. R...

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Main Authors:	Majer, Jonathan, Beeston, G.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	1996
Online Access:	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2386945 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33825

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