Spatial and seasonal organisation of a darkling beetle (coleoptera, tenebrionidae) community inhabiting a mediterranean coastal dune system

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 207-214

  Carpaneto, Giuseppe M ^a   Fattorini, Simone ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Diversity; Habitat distribution; Seasonal variations; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DUNE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ITALY;

COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0035175188     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250000109356410     Document Type: Article

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