Colonial seabirds change beetle assemblages on a Mediterranean island

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-44

  Orgeas, Jérôme ^a   Vidal, Éric ^a   Ponel, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Insular biota; Larus cachinnans; Vertebrate insect interactions; Yellow legged gull

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISTURBANCE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SEABIRD;

BAGAUD ISLAND; FRANCE;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LARUS; LARUS CACHINNANS; LARUS MICHAHELLIS; TENEBRIONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037278057     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682748     Document Type: Article

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