Maintenance of ladybeetle diversity across a heterogeneous African agricultural/savanna land mosaic

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 209-222

  Magagula, C N ^a   Samways, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Citrus; Coccinellidae; Diversity; Land mosaics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; SAVANNA;

SWAZILAND;

EID: 0035092971     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008900302267     Document Type: Article

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