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Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece)
Abstract. Global urbanization is a major force that causes alteration and loss of natural habitats. Urban ecosystems are strongly affected by humans and there is a gradient of decreasing human influence from city centers to natural habitats. To study ecological changes along this continuum, research...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257541 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8414 |
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author | Papastefanou, Gabriella Panayiotou, Eleni Mylonas, Moisis Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail |
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description | Abstract. Global urbanization is a major force that causes alteration and loss of natural habitats. Urban ecosystems are strongly affected by humans and there is a gradient of decreasing human influence from city centers to natural habitats. To study ecological changes along this continuum, researchers introduced the urban-rural gradient approach. The responses of centipedes to an urbanization gradient (urban-suburban-rural areas) were studied using pitfall traps in and near the city of Heraklion, in the island of Crete, Greece, from November 2010 to November 2011. Our results do not support the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, in which suburban areas located in the transitional zone between urban and rural habitats failed to indicate significant increase in terms of species richness and diversity. |
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spelling | pubmed-45237712015-08-07 Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) Papastefanou, Gabriella Panayiotou, Eleni Mylonas, Moisis Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Global urbanization is a major force that causes alteration and loss of natural habitats. Urban ecosystems are strongly affected by humans and there is a gradient of decreasing human influence from city centers to natural habitats. To study ecological changes along this continuum, researchers introduced the urban-rural gradient approach. The responses of centipedes to an urbanization gradient (urban-suburban-rural areas) were studied using pitfall traps in and near the city of Heraklion, in the island of Crete, Greece, from November 2010 to November 2011. Our results do not support the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, in which suburban areas located in the transitional zone between urban and rural habitats failed to indicate significant increase in terms of species richness and diversity. Pensoft Publishers 2015-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4523771/ /pubmed/26257541 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8414 Text en Gabriella Papastefanou, Eleni Panayiotou, Moisis Mylonas, Stylianos Michail Simaiakis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Papastefanou, Gabriella Panayiotou, Eleni Mylonas, Moisis Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) |
title | Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) |
title_full | Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) |
title_fullStr | Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) |
title_full_unstemmed | Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) |
title_short | Centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of Heraklion, Crete (Greece) |
title_sort | centipede assemblages along an urbanization gradient in the city of heraklion, crete (greece) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257541 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8414 |
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