The colonisation of exotic species does not have to trigger faunal homogenisation : lessons from the assembly patterns of arthropods on oceanic islands

Human-caused disturbances can lead to the extinction of indigenous (endemic and native) species, while facilitating and increasing the colonisation of exotic species; this increase can, in turn, promote the similarity of species compositions between sites if human-disturbed sites are consistently in...

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Main Author: Florencio, Margarita (author)
Other Authors: Lobo, Jorge M. (author), Cardoso, Pedro (author), Almeida-Neto, Mário (author), Borges, Paulo A. V. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/4584
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.uac.pt:10400.3/4584