Population density and dispersal ability in Darwin's darklings: Flightless beetles of the Galápagos Islands

Pan-Pacific Entomologist

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 110-121

  Finston, T L ^a,b   Peck, S B ^a   Perry, R B ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Ecology; Insecta; Mark and recapture; Population structure; Tenebrionid beetles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031496920     PISSN: 00310603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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