A pragmatic approach to characterising insect communities in New Zealand: Malaise trapped beetles

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-79

  Hutcheson, J A ^a   Kimberley, M O ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Insect community characterisation; Malaise trapped Coleoptera; New Zealand; Techniques; Vegetation succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INSECT; TRAPPING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032695933     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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