A darkling beetle population in West Texas during the 1997-1998 El Niño

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 711-721

  Deslippe, Richard J ^a   Salazar, Jesus R ^a   Guo, Yu Jie ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Body mass; Climate; Distribution; Eleodes extricata; Grassland; Sand shinnery oak; Sex ratios

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BODY MASS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SEX RATIO; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; ELEODES; ELEODES EXTRICATA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS HAVARDII; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0035700881     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.2001.0821     Document Type: Article

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