Authors
Vassiliki Kati, Pierre Devillers, Marc Dufrêne, Anastasios Legakis, Despina Vokou, Philippe Lebrun
Publication date
2004/6
Journal
Conservation biology
Volume
18
Issue
3
Pages
667-675
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Inc
Description
We examined six groups of taxa—woody plants, aquatic and terrestrial herpetofauna, small terrestrial birds, orchids, and Orthoptera—to determine their efficiency as biodiversity indicators in the Dadia Reserve in northern Greece. We investigated the indicator value of each group by examining the degree of congruence of its species‐richness pattern with that of the other groups and the efficiency of its complementary network in conserving the other groups and biodiversity. The two techniques differed in many respects in their outputs, but they both showed woody plants as the best biodiversity indicator. There was in general low congruence in the species richness patterns across the different groups. Significant relationships were found between woody plants and birds, Orthoptera and terrestrial herpetofauna, and birds and aquatic herpetofauna. None of the optimal complementary networks of the groups we …
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V Kati, P Devillers, M Dufrêne, A Legakis, D Vokou… - Conservation biology, 2004