Dung and carrion beetles in tropical rain forest fragments and agricultural habitats at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 577-593

  Estrada, Alejandro ^a   Coates Estrada, Rosamond ^a   Dadda, Alberto Anzures ^b   Cammarano, Pierluigi ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Instituto de Historia Natural   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dung beetles; Forest fragmentation; Los Tuxtlas; Mexico; Scarabacidae; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION;

MEXICO;

CANTHIDIUM CENTRALE; CANTHON FEMORALIS; COLEOPTERA; COPRIS LAEVICEPS; DELTOCHILIUM PSEUDOPARILE; ONTHOPHAGUS BATESI; ONTHOPHAGUS RHINOLOPHUS;

EID: 0031726946     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467498000418     Document Type: Article

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