Modelling the species richness distribution of French dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) and delimiting the predictive capacity of different groups of explanatory variables

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 265-277

  Lobo, Jorge M ^a   Lumaret, Jean Pierre ^b   Jay Robert, Pierre ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

Dung beetles; France; Modelling distributions; Species richness determinants; Species richness distribution; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; MODELING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

FRANCE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0036329181     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2002.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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