Relationships between body length, number of species and species abundance in soil mites and beetles

Pedobiologia

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 401-412

  Osler, Graham H R ^a,b   Beattie, Andrew J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Body length; Coleoptera; Mesostigmata; Oribatida; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; MITE; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MESOSTIGMATA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 0032750336     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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