Establishment and interactions of carabid populations: An experiment with native and introduced species

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 643-652

  Niemelä, Jari ^a,b   Spence, John R ^a   Cárcamo, Héctor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE COMMUNITY; FOREST; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; POPULUS; PTEROSTICHUS MELANARIUS; PTEROSTICHUS PENSYLVANICUS; PTEROSTOCHUS ADSTRICTUS; SALICACEAE;

EID: 0031405329     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00433.x     Document Type: Article

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