Carabid beetle assemblages (Coleoptera, Carabidae) across urban-rural gradients: An international comparison

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 387-401

  Niemelä, Jari ^a   Kotze, D Johan ^a   Venn, Stephen ^a   Penev, Lyubomir ^b   Stoyanov, Ivailo ^b   Spence, John ^c   Hartley, Dustin ^c   Montes de Oca, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Canada; Carabidae; Finland; Urban rural gradients; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION;

BULGARIA; CANADA; FINLAND;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0036919020     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021270121630     Document Type: Article

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