A North African-European transition fauna: Water beetles (Coleoptera) from the Ebro delta and other Mediterranean coastal wetlands in the Iberian peninsula

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 121-140

  Ribera, Ignacio ^a   Bilton, David T ^b   Aguilera, Pedro ^c   Foster, Garth N ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COASTAL WETLAND; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER BEETLE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN, ANDALUCIA, EBRO DELTA;

EID: 0030470292     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0755(199609)6:3<121::AID-AQC187>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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