Seasonal activity of adult, ground-occurring beetles (Coleoptera) in forests of northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-133

  Werner, Shahla M ^a,b   Raffa, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b 345 Russell Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CALATHUS; CALATHUS INGRATUS; CALOSOMA; CALOSOMA FRIGIDUM; CARABUS NEMORALIS; CARABUS SYLVOSUS; COLEOPTERA; GEOTRUPES; GEOTRUPES BAYLI; NICROPHORUS; NICROPHORUS DEFODIENS; NICROPHORUS SAYI; NICROPHORUS TOMENTOSUS; OICEOPTOMA; OICEOPTOMA NOVEBORACENSIS; PLATYNUS; PLATYNUS DECENTIS; PTEROSTICHUS; PTEROSTICHUS ADSTRICTUS; PTEROSTICHUS MELANARIUS; PTEROSTICHUS MUTUS; PTEROSTICHUS PENSYLVANICUS; PTEROSTICHUS TRISTIS; SPHAERODERUS; SPHAERODERUS LECONTEI; SYNUCHUS IMPUNCTATUS;

EID: 0037230568     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)149[0121:SAOAGO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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