Trunk window trapping: An effective technique for sampling tropical saproxylic beetles

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 149-160

  Grove, Simon J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Insect trap; Queensland; Rainforest; Sampling; Saproxylic

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DEAD WOOD; SAMPLING; TRAPPING;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0034441444     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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