Spatial and temporal strategies in relation to environmental constraints of four tenebrionids inhabiting a Mediterranean coastal dune system

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-64

  Fallaci, M ^a   Colombini, I ^a   Palesse, L ^a   Chelazzi, L ^a  

^a Ctro Stud Faunistica Ecologia T   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity rhythms; Environmental constraints; Erodius siculus; Pimelia bipunctata; Population size; Scaurus striarus; Tentyria grossa; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; COASTAL DUNE; HUMIDITY; POPULATION SIZE; TEMPERATURE; ZONATION;

BURANO LAGOON; ITALY; TUSCANY;

COLEOPTERA; ERODIUS; ERODIUS SICULUS; PIMELIA; SCAURUS; SCAURUS STRIATUS; TENEBRIONIDAE; TENTYRIA;

EID: 0031239537     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.1997.0258     Document Type: Article

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