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SUBMITTER: Papastefanou G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4523771 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Papastefanou Gabriella G Panayiotou Eleni E Mylonas Moisis M Simaiakis Stylianos Michail SM
ZooKeys 20150630 510
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 ...[more]