Keystone coleopterans? Colonization by wood-feeding elmids of experimentally immersed woods in south-eastern Australia

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-88

  McKie, B G L ^a,c   Cranston, P S ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; EUCALYPT; STREAM; WOOD-BORING BEETLE;

(SOUTHEAST); AUSTRALIA;

ALNUS; ANIMALIA; BETULACEAE; COLEOPTERA; ELIMIDAE; ELMIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGI; PINUS; RIPARIA;

EID: 0031965493     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF97086     Document Type: Article

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