Beetle species responses to tropical forest fragmentation

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 295-323

  Didham, Raphael K ^a,b,c,d   Hammond, Peter M ^a   Lawton, John H ^b   Eggleton, Paul ^a   Stork, Nigel E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biodiversity loss; Body size; CCA; Central Amazonia; Coleoptera; Edge effects; Extinction rates; Forest fragmentation; Leaf litter; Population density and variability; Rarity; Species turnover; Trophic group; TWINSPAN

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0031709621     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0295:BSRTTF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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