Sampling carabid assemblages with pitfall traps: The madness and the method

The Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 881-894

  Spence, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0001709545     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent126881-3     Document Type: Article

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