Leaf litter inhabiting beetles as surrogates for establishing priorities for conservation of selected tropical montane cloud forests in Honduras, Central America (Coleoptera; Staphylinidae, Curculionidae)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 617-653

  Anderson, Robert S ^a   Ashe, James S ^b  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Beetles; Biodiversity; Cloud forest; Conservation; Curculionidae; Honduras; Staphylinidae; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CLOUD FOREST; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDEMISM; LEAF LITTER;

HONDURAS;

EID: 0034097861     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008937017058     Document Type: Article

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